Sentence examples for be poised at from inspiring English sources

Right now the American economy seems to be poised at that doorway.

These problems have been controlled to a remarkable extent by improvements in vitrification solution design and perfusion technique, and as a result, we may now be poised at the brink of success with at least one model system, the rabbit kidney, and one kidney has already been vitrified, rewarmed, and transplanted with indefinite life support thereafter.

AFRICAN POWER A 19th-century monumental carved wood Mangaaka power figure — a fierce-looking Congo lord from Central Africa whose torso, legs and chin are embedded with a forest of menacing blades and nails — will soon be poised at the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.

The national brand needed to know the right time to try to transfer a visitor to those dealers, and needed the dealers to be poised at that moment to close a deal.

What does it feel like to be poised at the starting gate, waiting for it all to begin?

These data suggest that lung contains a very large repertoire of immunocompetent TRM cells and lung TRM cells may be poised at the environmental interface to respond to pathogen encountered in that setting.

They are poised at the edge of compaction, thus accounting for their flexibility.

The plane was poised at the runway, about to take off.

AN OLYMPIC alpine skier is poised at the starting gate, tense, focussed and unsmiling.

America, as Soros sees it, is poised at a dangerous intersection.

Sal Fasano, a burly veteran catcher, was poised at the plate, blocking his path.