Sentence examples for Signal readiness from inspiring English sources

The quarterback stamps his foot to signal readiness, I guess (you can see the center peering back between his legs), but the snap comes some variable time after that.

It is worth recalling some of the detail, the drama and the flavor of those days because, just this week, it seemed as if another kind of burial — political, diplomatic, pragmatic — was under way when Prime Minister David Cameron visited Moscow and seemed to signal readiness for a thaw.

It is reasonable to infer that advertisement calls of frogs, which attract females and signal readiness to defend territories to male opponents, were shaped over time through natural and sexual selection as by-products of breathing.

Reversion also depends heavily on other plasmid-encoded proteins needed to signal readiness to mate and to assemble the transfer replication complex— e.g., the TraD proteins, pilus structure (Foster and Trimarchi 1995a, b).

We used fine forceps to adjust the inclination of the body and the spreading of the wings in a fair imitation of the typical wing lifting posture with which D. montana females signal readiness to mate [ 56], and to which males invariably respond with mounting [ 57].

Its leader, Khaled Mishal, has signalled readiness for a long-term ceasefire or "hudna" with Israel, but not for formal recognition.

Nevertheless, the head of a group that represents Germany's private-sector banks signaled readiness to discuss the proposal.

The Brexit secretary has signalled readiness to pay contributions to the EU budget in exchange for privileges within the single market.

Some analysts argue that, by slowing the growth of its stockpile, Tehran could delay the moment when it acquires enough 20 percent enriched uranium to set off a response by Israel, which has signaled readiness to attack Iran's nuclear sites.

The president's talk of "responsibility" and "deeds" to support pledges is directed at Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies who have signalled readiness for "normalisation" with Israel in their Arab peace initiative but so far done very little about it.

In addition, the uprising against the regime in Syria, which hosts the political leadership of Hamas, has left the organization uneasy about its future there and has drawn it to Egypt, which has signaled readiness to pursue closer ties with the Islamist group than existed under now-ousted President Hosni Mubarak.