Sentence examples for apparent preparations from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Later you realize this same skill explains the constant aplomb with which he can suddenly strike a balance with no apparent preparation: he just arrives on one foot in one striking position or another.

Judging by the latest news from the White House about Donald Trump shuffling his legal team in apparent preparation for a lengthy battle with Robert Mueller, the special counsel it may well be many months, or even longer, before we get a final resolution to the story of Russia's interference in the election, and of the Trump campaign's relationship to that interference.