Sentence examples for held ready from inspiring English sources

Before a surgeon is scheduled to perform a procedure, the needed instruments must be selected, placed in their order of use, sterilized, and held ready.

Member states were asked on 23 September to notify the commission of any assets which can be held ready to deploy to help refugees.

In mining camps all along the Rocky Mountains dynamite held ready for retaliation was now set off "by the ton", just for kicks.

A seal is impressed in red ink made of cinnabar in water and honey or suspended in sesame oil, hempseed oil, etc.—held ready on a pad of cotton or moss.

Spies upon high promontories watched the seas for the dreaded British ships ; the people of Manila were held ready to defend the city from assault ; every one was on the alert.the Covadouga yielded him immense wealth.

Spies upon high promontories watched the seas for the dreaded British ships ; the people of Manila were held ready to defend the city from assault ; every one was on the alert.

Out in Hollywood he rides at the head of his private cavalry the California Light Horse Troop which he has equipped and holds ready for any civic or national emergency.

The calculation seems to have been that Labour would immediately move to a leadership election in which their favoured candidate would win and save the party from itself, and hold ready for a Lib-Lab coalition in due course.

Just before the Japanese dive bombers began their attacks, Enterprise and Saratoga cleared their decks for the impending action by launching the aircraft that they had been holding ready in case the Japanese fleet carriers were sighted.

Heavy cavalry would be held in reserve, ready to strike when a gap was created or a flank presented itself.

The state authorities appeared, as the statute requires, before a judicial official, and held themselves ready to provide information to justify the issuance of an eavesdropping order.