Sentence examples for getting ready to compete from inspiring English sources

But she said repeatedly that she had not ruled out a comeback, and after carrying the Olympic torch before the Vancouver Games, admitted she was envious of the athletes who were getting ready to compete.

WellPoint "has aggressively examined the marketplace," he said, and is getting ready to compete for customers in highly regulated exchanges, where it must offer coverage even to people with serious medical conditions.

Daly, meanwhile, found himself 2,000 miles to the west getting ready to compete in the Reno-Tahoe Open, one of the less illustrious events on the PGA Tour calendar.

Rodney is getting ready to compete in a poetry slam when he turns on the television, only to discover that his father, Reginald, who mysteriously disappeared from the apartment they share, has somehow climbed aboard the ship and become the natural focus of the media storm.

While we watched twisted horrors very much in keeping with the tone of Thomas Harris's original cast, like the mushroom killer or the angel maker, Hannibal looked like he was getting ready to compete in MasterChef (love his apron), with only the odd flashes like the "courtesy call" he made to fellow killer Garrett Jacob Hobbs revealing his true nature.

And that means you're getting ready to compete with all sorts of entertainment devices, right?

The Columbia Alumni Association CAAA) gets ready to compete in the Olympics and ALUMpics this week.

Photograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images 11.44am BST Egypt's Hedaya Wahba gets ready to compete in her women's taekwondo preliminary bout.

Instead he's here ministering to U.S. Olympians as they get ready to compete in their version of the Super Bowl.

Our survey suggests payment-by-results contracts aren't coming in as quickly as the rhetoric implies, so charities need to use this time to get ready to compete in this changing world.

As the 22-year-old UCLA senior gets ready to compete for the final time at the NCAA championships, she has lived up to her own words with a trio of viral floor routines that have given her an audience outside the world of gymnastics and a platform to speak out on issues of empowerment.