Sentence examples for gathering and preparing from inspiring English sources

There Zizi's entire extended family were in the process of gathering and preparing the feast.

In four new children's books, three of them bilingual, the pleasures of gathering and preparing food are paramount.

Our hosts would have been upset had we not tucked in as they had spent a long time gathering and preparing them.

Grandparents can assist with child care; older women can pass on a lifetime's experience of gathering and preparing wild grains and fruits to their daughters.

This article was amended on 22 January 2015 to add more detail about the Hanigans' work gathering and preparing the fossils, and to clarify the meaning and origin of the dinosaur's name.

Indigenous food systems – gathering and preparing food to maximise the nutrients an environment can provide – range from nomadic hunter-gatherers such as the Aché in eastern Paraguay, the Massai pastoralists in northern Kenya, and herding and fishing groups including the Inuit in northern Canada, to the Saami of Scandinavia and the millet-farming Kondh agriculturalists in eastern India.

Without questioning the organization of such an event, which the community considers to be important from a cultural and economic point of view, public health authorities should consider and anticipate as much as possible the potential sanitary consequences of such a gathering and prepare medical staff for the potential occurrence of unfamiliar diseases.

Meanwhile, the House committee leading the Enron investigation is gathering documents and preparing to summon Wall Street executives.

He said that international forces had spent recent months mapping strategy, gathering resources and preparing the leadership of a "comprehensive civil-military campaign".

Lawyers for the campaign are gathering intelligence and preparing litigation over the ballot machines being used and the rules concerning how voters will be registered or their votes disqualified.

Mr. Cohen is not the first high-ranking former federal official who has recently joined the Police Department to help it branch out from fighting crime and cracking down on quality-of-life violations to gathering intelligence and preparing itself for terrorism.