Sentence examples for apparent preparation from inspiring English sources
Dancers on the floor popped suddenly into the air without apparent preparation.
And, not coincidentally perhaps, massive civil defence exercises were held inside Russia, in apparent preparation for a nuclear war.
Ryan on Thursday also blamed Democrats for "dragging their feet" on negotiations in an apparent preparation to blame Democrats if their deal falls through.
Analysts said Mr. Ahmadinejad's public attack on the Larijani brothers reflected his apparent preparation for an increasingly public fight with political enemies.
The Russians had moved mercenaries and paramilitary forces into South Ossetia in apparent preparation for armed hostilities before Saakashvili's disastrous offensive, which triggered a Russian invasion and left his country partitioned.
Shekau's fighters are massing at a headquarters in the northeastern town of Gwoza, in apparent preparation for a showdown with multinational forces, according to witnesses who escaped the town.
Mr. Becker says "Pyongyang's apparent preparations for nuclear weapons tests are played down".
With North Korea's apparent preparations to test a missile that could hit not only South Korea and Japan but possibly also Hawaii or Alaska, the United States and its allies need quickly to state publicly a new self-defense doctrine.
During the cold war, people slept fractionally better at night because they knew there was a "hot line" which American and Soviet leaders could use if tension, or apparent preparations for war, seemed to be getting out of hand.
A senior Israeli official said the movement of the chemical weapons, and the apparent preparations to use them, could be a bluff, intended as a warning to the West at a moment when NATO and the United States were debating greater support to opposition groups.
Russia responded to the apparent Georgian preparations by dispatching 400 paratroopers and a battery of howitzers to a staging area not far from the cease-fire line, provoking a strong protest from NATO.
