America has had an inauspicious start to the 21st century, to put it mildly.
Evangelos Venizelos became leader of Greece's socialist party Pasok in the most inauspicious circumstances.
It marked an inauspicious start for a company that was troubled from the start.
And, given the inauspicious lead up to the meeting, she may well have earned the title.
For Facebook the business, which it has become following its inauspicious IPO, driving revenue growth is paramount.
Unfortunately, some rather inauspicious events leading up to that global warming meeting got it off to a chilly beginning.
And the distractions of the European debt crisis made this one especially inauspicious.
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But Gold was deadly serious and set about transforming Rokoduguni's raw talent into the finished product after an inauspicious start.
That was an inauspicious year for many investment banks, particularly Merrill Lynch.
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After an inauspicious start 2012 must become the year of action.
It was an inauspicious start for Kawasoe, who had been appointed to Mitsubishi Motors' top job after three company executives were arrested for paying off gangsters.
Though there are no big stars and the film has an inauspicious February release date, it was produced by Michael Bay and directed by D.
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Ngwenya's night got off to an inauspicious start after the stadium announcer didn't even attempt to pronounce his name when the teams came out for the match.
The 2012 race got off to an inauspicious start after the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised was spooked on his way down to the start and unseated his jockey, AP McCoy.
Having played under three different managers at Celtic, during an inauspicious spell when rivals Rangers dominated, Mowbray will know the demand for success - and the price of not delivering it.
The Year of the Snake is forecast to be challenging for Hong Kong after the city drew number 95, one of the most inauspicious fortune-telling sticks, at a temple ceremony on Monday.
Arguably, Total's problems in this respect are more severe than those of most of its rivals, since it derives a relatively high part of its output from geologically promising but politically inauspicious spots.
Saracens, back at Vicarage Road after "home" matches at Twickenham and Wembley, made an inauspicious start to the match with Alasdair Strokosch stealing their ball at the line-out before Lawson darted through to score.
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The week started with an inauspicious warning from Caterpillar, as the heavy equipment maker said the first half of 2013 will be more challenging from a global growth standpoint than a year earlier.
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Eto'o also had a goal disallowed as he headed into the net from an offside position to cap a telling performance that was in stark contrast to that of Holland international Klass-Jan Huntelaar who made an inauspicious debut for Milan after leaving Real Madrid.
For those who have lost count of the institutions that were pulverised by the financial crisis, Anglo Irish was an erstwhile star of Ireland's banking scene, which rose quickly from inauspicious roots during Ireland's heady growth in the 1990s, only to rack up enormous property-related losses when the bubble burst.
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