propitiously

ON the face of it, there could be no better person to tame the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam than Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose second name propitiously means the "King of Force" in Malay.

unknown title 2009

Admittedly, Warner's account does not start propitiously.

Why IT hasn't worked for government 2011

These records handed down the ages as inert sacred relics of another era, were preserved somewhat unwittingly, yet propitiously, by our order.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

But the stars aren't aligned so propitiously for the rest of the 'hood holdouts.

Wayne Trujillo: An Endless -- and Escalating -- War at Home, Part I 2009

The year started out propitiously for him as Cuban-backed Sandinista guerrillas overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, but it ended in ignominy.

Castro Embodies Contradictions of a Movement 2008

Themis, so propitiously indulgent to the foibles of the fair, been resorted to on the occasion, but even Mars seemed ready to enter upon the tapis, if Hymen had not intervened.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

These records handed down the ages as inert sacred relics of another era, were preserved somewhat unwittingly, yet propitiously, by our order.

Fiction 2008

But so far the facts are not shaping up propitiously for George W. Bush.

April 2006 2006

What I did not consider, when reflecting on what I saw as a propitiously timed news story, was that Noticias 'source may have spoken with deliberate vaguenessthat, while I was traveling to Magude in search of what women remembered, Magude's deslocados were traveling in search of memory itself.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Yesterday was a big day for Boeing as it rolled out its 787 Dreamliner – propitiously on 7/08/07 American date style.

Subtle bias, or just bias? Richard 2007