Sentence examples for any kind of preparation from inspiring English sources

It was only when he moved east to attend Harvard on a full academic scholarship that he began any kind of preparation for a life in jazz.

Few like to admit any kind of preparation publicly, because it makes it seem as if they have given up the fight.

"Even in New York City and Washington, D.C., they say, 'We've already been hit, so we won't be hit again.' " Or they believe that any kind of preparation won't really matter when disaster strikes.

"The thing I found really shocking when I was researching this was the absence of a plan and a complete failure to make any kind of preparation for the postwar aftermath or even consider what the aftermath might be," said Steven Kettell, associate professor in politics and international studies at the University of Warwick.

"I don't really do any kind of preparation," says Dick Chibbles, a performer who's been in the industry for 17 years, acted in nearly 2,000 scenes, and played Santa a couple of times.

They didn't make any kind of preparations.

That it's dead serious, and a kind of preparation, and an active pathology that I prefer not to indulge.

You could say that Leckey's early negotiations between image and substance, his early attempts at self-transformation, were a kind of preparation for life as an artist.

I went out on several day passes in the week leading to my departure, as a kind of preparation for re-entry, but none of them were particularly successful.

Hurdle racing, a kind of preparation for steeplechasing, originated in England and Ireland in the 18th century and by the second half of the 20th century had spread to Commonwealth countries, Europe, and the eastern United States.

I don't think fisting required any kind of special preparation.