Sentence examples for claimed to be ready from inspiring English sources

Arguing that, although the party claimed to be ready for government, in practice it was not.

The youngsters claimed to be ready, and at the count of three they congealed into several sprawling heaps of preadolescent bodies.

Mr Dervis pledged to go on trying, but said he would not join Mr Cem, and in contrast praised Mr Baykal, who had promptly claimed to be ready for unity.So now?

He claimed to be ready for compromise with the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, offering to "mix and match" ideas and, where necessary, disagree without being disagreeable.

A defense that claimed to be ready to slug it out against running back Brandon Jacobs and to bewilder Manning into game-breaking errors appeared worn down and unable to make basic adjustments.

The two leaders claim to be ready.

While Jordan claims to be ready to offer 150,000 work permits to Syrians, sceptics see this as pre-conference bluster.

Meeting those targets will be painful and expensive, but for now public opinion claims to be ready to drop bad habits.

Haye also claims to be ready to fight, despite a debilitating shoulder injury that forced him out of the ring on medical advice and required reconstructive surgery.

Perhaps they have calculated that while Miss Widdecombe was an asset in the not-so-distant days when any publicity was good publicity, she is less so now that the party is claiming to be ready for government.

AFTER more than a decade of dealing with a North Korea that might already have a bomb or two no one has known for sure does it matter that it is now claiming to be ready to build more?