There are few human societies in which it is unknown, though none is prepared to admit that the practice is at all common.
While all of the city's major hospitals had detailed evacuation and emergency plans, officials said, none were prepared for a catastrophic flood.
Five of his senior staff would, he said, make excellent heads, but, despite his encouragement, none is prepared to take the NPQH qualification.
None is prepared to accede to the PA's demand that the organisation should cease all military (or terrorist) operations against Israel.
And none is prepared to show the leadership these dire circumstances demand: to see the whole picture and see far ahead.
But none is preparing to make campaign on sound money.
I checked the list of the contents and it said that eight screws were included, but after searching each individual bag of contents a few times, I was absolutely certain there were none, and was prepared to go back to the store and get another clothing rack and start over.
None of us was prepared for what happened at the Serena.
Unusually for a bunch of TV executives, none of them was prepared to stick the knife in the other.
That was more than enough to set astronomer David Morrison of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, wondering, "Who do I call?" Morrison is chair of the IAU working group on near-Earth objects, but this "was an event none of us was prepared for," he says.
