Sentence examples for One poised from inspiring English sources

This one, poised over the Nabokov story, is perhaps more explicit.

Now in business for nearly 50 years, he is now the figurehead of a fashion empire – one poised to gain more territory this year.

For all the posturing, the bellowing and the hatred, he remains an utterly individual literary presence - one poised between two countries and two worlds.

A result is a new breed of college conservative, one poised to inherit the responsibility of shaping the Republican Party in the years to come.

They are home instead to the marginal lives of another Pakistan, one poised for many years between aspiration and collapse — that of landless laborers, tenant farmers, bus drivers, and shopkeepers.

The Las Vegas rounds, the wins in the ring and learning to be patient have all made Catterall a better fighter, one poised to win domestic titles in what should be an entertaining 2016.

Like Claudette Colvin, they're the ones poised to build a better future for us all.

Older, conscientious adults aren't the only ones poised to make a difference.

But conservatives are not the only ones poised to maintain a presence here in a state that twice voted to elect Barack Obama as president.

As one glittering career ends, a nascent one is poised to kick-start.

Those of us watching at home, wedged comfortably between the couch cushions, with one eye on the television and one hand poised to post our latest snarky observation, may have benefitted from pausing for a moment to wonder what it might feel like to try to play professional basketball while suffering from painful, involuntary leg spasms.