After this inauspicious start, political life slowly became more civil.

Whether he will become a key figure in the Giants' offense remains to be seen, but anything seems better than his inauspicious start.

The new police force had an inauspicious start, as its first director promptly ran away with $34,000.

But his Harvard years got off to an inauspicious start.

From their inauspicious start, the pair could hardly be closer now.

The return from the dead of her lover during the honeymoon was an inauspicious start.

He had an inauspicious start to his professional baseball career.

In the final week things finally came together, only to get off to a fairly inauspicious start.

Either way, if today's teachers are any judge, the "little emperor" generation is off to an inauspicious start.

The result is an inauspicious start for the organization dedicated to world harmony through trade.