Sentence examples for make ready for from inspiring English sources

Sochi 2014 also has been stashing snow, and is ready to deploy an army of energy-intensive earth-movers and snow-making systems to make ready for the games.

Bob Woodward reported in his new book, "Plan of Attack," that the administration had used $700 million to make ready for the Iraq invasion without telling Congress.

Its original meaning was "to make ready for publication," as in a 1432 tract praising the emperor Pompey for his willingness to "redacte the lawes in to bokes," and centuries later to improving royal proclamations.

By preparing and ingesting one of them, the younger Xu probably willingly ended his earthly existence in order to take up the post that had been offered him in the unseen world and to make ready for the coming of the new era.

He then vowed a hecatomb and solemn sports to Hercules, and commanded his captains to make ready for battle, staying only till the sun should decline and come round to the west, lest, being in their faces in the morning, it should dazzle the eyes of his soldiers.

Meanwhile, Neal Stephenson maintained his status as the doyen of sci-fi and fantasy with the publication of Seveneves, an apocalyptic novel of catastrophic destruction as human life on Earth is eradicated, sending a handful of chosen survivors into an orbiting refuge of a self-sufficient "ark" and then leaping 5,000 years into the future as their progeny make ready for a return to the motherland.

Thus they made ready for their meal.

Empty flats were made ready for the newcomers.

But in July both sides were urgently making ready for war.

Ever wonder how Bancroft's wonderful collections are made ready for the public?

Making ready for use a plan of action to be taken if an emergency develops.