Weapons design and manufacturing facilities should be kept ready for such a contingency.
They will be kept ready for a possible pandemic in which almost any vaccine, however untested, may be used.
Any number of spiders may be secured and kept ready for use when required if each one is imprisoned in a separate bag".
And in the words of Maureen Seneviratne, her biographer: "If Mr Bandaranaike's stature as a politician and leader was built up over decades of campaigning, Sirimavo (the suffix "vo" denotes respect) donned hers like a cloak that had been lying in her wardrobe for years, unworn, but which had been pressed and kept ready for wearing at any given moment".
The fadeaway, as I came to think of it, may have had to do with his exile from his own writing that day, while travelling; the spacious writing part of him was held to one side when not engaged, kept ready for its engrossing daily stint back home.
"Not only does it free you from entanglements," he says, "you'll sleep better knowing your devices' batteries are being properly charged and kept ready for action".
Staff on board are replaced with skeleton teams, and the rigs are either kept ready for a new commission - or switched off before they are parked somewhere affordable, often off the shores of Malaysia or Indonesia.
Horses were sent to the rear, and kept ready for pursuit.
Maybe even a carry-on bag of mischievous notions, kept ready for a little spontaneous venting at the late night barstool.
While mounted riders remained effective for initial attacks, by the end of the 14th century, it was common for knights to dismount to fight, while their horses were sent to the rear, kept ready for pursuit.
ECPR devices must be kept ready for use.
