Sentence examples for dry ahead of from inspiring English sources

Investors are keeping their powder dry ahead of key events this week, notably the latest European Central Bank meeting and US non-farm payroll figures.

But because the UK pays good money not to be involved in any of that malarkey, there's a good chance that you've been keeping your powder dry ahead of the grand final – and my live blog, here from 7.30pm.

Critics responded that they were trying to bleed the government dry ahead of a transfer of power to the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari on May 29th, amid speculation that he may reduce or indeed terminate the subsidy.Mr Buhari, who inherits the crisis, is ironically one of its fathers: he set up the NNPC during his time as petroleum minister in the 1970s.

On June 3rd, with Greece's reserves running perilously dry ahead of some hefty debt repayments, Mr Tsipras flew to Brussels, where he was presented with detailed reforms drawn up by the three institutions that monitor Greece's bail-out: the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF.

There was 3mm of rain at Sandown Park on Tuesday but the forecast is largely dry ahead of an interesting meeting at the track tonight where El Hayem (7.40) should make a successful step up to handicap company after his unexpected win in a maiden at Doncaster last month.

Microsoft has previously given strictly limited demos of WP8, keeping its powder dry ahead of the 'big reveal' (at one U.K. HTC press briefing for its new line-up of WP8 devices journalists were not allowed to navigate beyond the lock screen during their 'hands on' time).

So he stopped, took out some matches, and set the tall dry grass ahead of him on fire.

According to the inspector general's report, the training conference's costs included $147,000 for airfare and lodging, along with five off-site planning meetings, two-scouting trips and a "dry run" ahead of the conference itself.

Physicians carried out two dry-runs ahead of the delivery, the last just minutes before the first of the babies was born.

"We have still got many hours of hot, dry, difficult conditions ahead of us, right across different parts of New South Wales," he said.

"[For] two rainy seasons in a row, the rain has not fallen anywhere near the normal average levels so there's some concern as to how we're going to keep this borehole operating over the coming months [and] we have 3 months of dry weather ahead before the next rainy season".