Sentence examples for constant state of preparedness from inspiring English sources

So it was refreshing to hear Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama's new secretary of homeland security, speak last Wednesday of "the urgent need to refocus our counterterror approach to make it a shared endeavour... to get to a point where we are in a constant state of preparedness, not a constant state of fear".

So today, I will speak candidly about the urgent need to refocus our counter-terror approach to make it a shared endeavor--to make it more layered, networked and resilient--to make it smarter and more adaptive and to make sure that as a country--as a nation--we are at the point where we are in a constant state of preparedness and not a state of fear.

"They're in a constant state of flux.

They continue to be in a constant state of sickness".

The roads are in a constant state of gridlock.

They live in a constant state of virtuous denial.

Many Turks today live in a constant state of vigilance.

In life you were in a constant state of motion.

Your look? "I'm in a constant state of transition".

For the coders there was a constant state of flux.

Weston admits to living in a constant state of tension.