The phrase "a readiness that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of being prepared or willing to do something, often followed by a clause that specifies what one is ready for.
Example: "Her readiness that was evident during the presentation impressed the entire team."
Alternatives: "a willingness that" or "an eagerness that".
Although federal, state, and local public health plans for responding to bioterrorism contributed to a state of readiness that would not have been possible only a few years earlier, the response to the 2001 anthrax attacks required venturing into unfamiliar territory for many public health and law enforcement officials.
Since the early days of the Cold War, the United States has been keeping its land-based ICBMs in a state of readiness that allows them to be launched within minutes, at least in part to avoid having them destroyed by a surprise nuclear attack.
"The standards are an attempt to build a staircase to college readiness that is real," Coleman told parents in the more subdued setting.
While both of these components are thought to promote a state of mental readiness that may decrease reaction times to an external stimulus, they were not included in our protocol for pragmatic reasons, i.e., that the simplified meditative technique of breath concentration could be easily adopted by the non-meditators, as well as the impossibility of assuming a seated posture in the scanner.
Schools need a strong, systemic approach to fostering college readiness that includes a range of appropriate indicators, supports tied to those indicators, reliable data infrastructure, and the systemwide capacity to make good use of data to inform action.
It's this competitive logic, rather than genuine concern about a child's developmental readiness, that drives redshirting.
We describe a National Science Foundation-funded project called 'Evolution Readiness' that used computer-based interactive models as well as hands-on activities to help fourth grade students learn Darwin's model of natural selection as the process primarily responsible for evolution.
Subjects also completed the RTCQ, a validated instrument that assesses readiness that has satisfactory test-retest reliability and consists of 12 statements, each one evaluated by the participant on a 5 point Likert scale [ 29].
In peacetime, national security is better served by translucence, a partial, measured escape of information reassuring international rivals that defense policy is just that--a wary readiness that poses no threat when unprovoked.
The first report, published in September, is now under question because of its central assertion that Iraq's chemical and biological weapons were in such a state of readiness that they could be launched within 45 minutes.
