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.
Semi-processing parts are often held ready for a wide range of customer-demanded final versions.
Of the pack, reviewers held Ready, Aim, Tomatoes! in the highest regard.
During the summer, XV Corps was held ready for Operation Hush, an amphibious landing by the 1st Division and a coastal offensive by the rest of XV Corps, which was planned to support an advance from Ypres by the Fifth Army.
From there he went to Montreal, where, in a meeting with General Carleton and more than 1,500 Indians, negotiated similar agreements, and delivered war belts "to be held ready for service".
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.
This autosomal restriction is probably related to the paucity of germline-expressed loci on the X chromosome, and may indicate that Pol II is 'poised' at such loci, held ready at the gate in advance of larval germ cell activation at hatching.
