Inopportune Sentence Examples

The visit was marked by the greatest cordiality, Count Robilants fears of inopportune pressure with regard to Irredentism proving groundless.

Sir Hercules Robinson, in response to a message from Mr Chamberlain, who had been secretary of 'state for the colonies since July 1895, urging him to use firm language in reference to reasonable concessions, replied that he considered the moment inopportune, and on the 15th of January he left for Cape Town.

All of this has happened at a very inopportune time and, with no disrespect, an inopportune location.

At the Vatican council he vigorously maintained the rights of the bishops, and strongly opposed the dogma of papal infallibility, against which he voted as inopportune.

Others, though accepting it as the truth, declared its promulgation to be inopportune.

Interpolation is sometimes due to an inopportune use of knowledge, as when a quotation or a narrative is made to agree with what the interpolator has read elsewhere.

As a writer Cattaneo was learned and brilliant, but far too bitter a partisan to be judicious, owing to his narrowly republican views; his ideas on local autonomy were perhaps wise, but, at a moment when unity was the first essential, inopportune.

When the question of papal infallibility arose, he opposed the promulgation of the dogma on the ground that such promulgation was inopportune.

Others have the power of producing sounds, one use to which they put this faculty being apparently to signal from their burrow in the sand that they are "not at home" to an inopportune visitor.

The secretary of state sought the aid of Sir Bartle Frere as his chief agent in carrying through confederation, the then governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner for South Africa, Sir Henry Barkly, sharing the views of the Cape ministry that the time was inopportune to force such a step upon South Africa.

The intention of this act was a liberal one, but the moment of its introduction was inopportune, and its effect was to give an additional stimulus to the policy of the Bond.

I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune.

Burying your feelings may result in the feelings coming out later, oftentimes inappropriately and at inopportune times.

Sometimes the weather can cause inopportune disruptions to parties or sleepovers.

If you have ever experienced some of the disasters that zippers can wreak at the most inopportune moments, you are probably well aware of the benefits of opting for other types of fasteners.

Unlike a pre-paid cell phone that can run out of minutes at the most inopportune moment, a rented cell phone may be the optimal solution.

While the odds of that happening are very slim, it is true that even the pros have to deal with their hair pieces coming loose at the most inopportune times.

Most users love them, although a few do caution that an inopportune squeeze will release a lot more change than you want.

Laurier could hardly have come to the leadership at a more inopportune moment, and probably he would not have accepted the office at all if he had not believed that Blake could be persuaded to resume the leadership when his health was restored.

In view of popular indignation he resigned in order to avoid making inopportune declarations to the chamber.

The time was inopportune, however, for pressing the Transvaal on the subject, and nothing was done."

Another member of the conference was Sir Theophilus Shepstone, (q.v.) Neither Cape Colony nor the Transvaal was represented, 1 At Sir Henry Barkly's request Lord Carnarvon's predecessor, Lord Kimberley, had in November 1871 given him (Sir Henry) authority to summon a meeting of representatives of the states and colonies to consider the " conditions of union," but the annexation of the diamond fields had occurred meantime and Sir Henry thought the occasion inopportune for such a conference.

It was at such an inopportune time that the most extensive combination of Labour yet brought into action against capital formulated its demands.