Sentence examples for authorities were prepared from inspiring English sources

That would be good, if the east African authorities were prepared.

But he said that "there are still chunks falling in" and that the authorities were prepared to evacuate Daisetta's 1,034 residents if the hole suddenly grew.

General Sattler said the authorities were prepared so far to provide up to 10,000 residents with kerosene, drinking water, food and blankets.

Swiss authorities were prepared to release that money to Mr. Duvalier in 2008, Mr. Charles said, but the authorities in Haiti filed a legal claim.

Residents who had been evacuated returned home, but the authorities were prepared to ask them to leave again, depending on where winds blew the flames, said Jim Karels, the state Division of Forestry fire chief.

That confidence came even as people were divided about whether their state and local authorities were prepared to deal with such an attack (48 percent said they were prepared; 41 percent said they were not).

Local authorities were preparing to erect floodlights in the cemetery in order to hold round-the-clock burials.

Later, residents of several other villages were ordered to evacuate their homes, and the authorities were preparing for the possibility of evacuating some neighborhoods of Haifa.

Immigration authorities were preparing to receive as many as 250,000 in the first month of the program, but ended up with less than a third of that.

Also yesterday, the authorities were preparing charges against an 18-year-old who shot and wounded five people Thursday at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, six miles from Santana.

The Russian authorities were preparing to send a scientist, convicted six years ago of passing atomic secrets to US intelligence, to Britain as part of the swap, his family said.