Sentence examples for long preparations from inspiring English sources

In 933, after long preparations, Henry routed a Hungarian attack on Saxony and Thuringia.

The other patron is Joachim Gauck, who became the president of Germany in March, too late to be involved in the long preparations.

Despite long preparations to establish such a market in the southern, free-wheeling city of Shenzhen, the launch, originally expected late last year, has once again been delayed.The main reason for the dithering is the abysmal performance of second boards elsewhere, after the bursting of the high-tech bubble.

The Yongle emperor was even more zealous: he personally campaigned into the Gobi (desert) five times, and his decision to transfer the national capital from Nanjing to Beijing, completed in 1421 after long preparations, was largely a reflection of his concern about the frontier.

In his 1650 account to the senate of the Republic of Venice Petar Parchevich described the long preparations for an armed struggle and the support-seeking visits of his fellow townsmen to the kings of Poland and Austria.

"We had a pretty long preparation camp, a too long preparation time.

Hundreds of actors and long preparation went into the festivals.

Mr. Maro described the long preparation of his protégés and their recent creative efforts.

"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens," Yeats warned.

During the very long preparation, I get to know the actors, and it creates a climate of mutual trust.

The long preparation of the book meant that, for the first time in Dickens's career, he was able to compose a novel that had an underlying structure.