Sentence examples for have stood ready from inspiring English sources

Supervisory committees have stood ready to penalise candidates who ignore the rules.

"Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective," said spokesman Harland Dorrinson.

Law enforcement forces had stood ready since Sunday evening, after being deployed to protect most of the important roads of the capital.

Had he known what Rooney had in his mind, Campbell would probably have stood hands on hips ready to ball out the cocky sod for not playing in the senior pro.

"And time and time again she has stood up ready to keep moving forward, to persevere with her trademark humor, kindness and relentless optimism".

A range of financial institutions, both locally and in Hong Kong, have long stood ready to provide this service.

Armed with sketch pads and banana peels, cartoonists have always stood ready for the high noons of history.

The outer darkness that Grundtvig had evoked stood ready for Kierkegaard.

Aside from that, the distinctions can be few — a fact made evident this week as Mr. Obama has stood before a camera-ready assortment of red barns, green tractors and obligatory bales of hay.

In its home state of California, which offers as part of its CalFile system a no-cost return-free service to taxpayers with simple tax situations called ReadyReturn, Intuit has stood up strong for the right of taxpayers to pay for unnecessary tax preparation.

We have to stand ready to be accepted or rejected". Besides, Garrido refuses to think Fullerton should have an NCAA bid wrapped up; he says his players cornered the market on that idea a couple of weeks ago.