Sentence examples for over poised from inspiring English sources

Are women the world over poised to enjoy an undiscovered interest or resurgence in BDSM ( Bondage & Discipline / Domination & Submission / Sadism & Masochism).

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, looks meaningfully into the camera as he holds a piece of paper poised over a plastic ballot box.

The Chevrolet Volt, which General Motors says will drive 40 miles on its battery pack before a gas-powered generator takes over, is poised to hum off the assembly line late in 2010, hungry for available wattage.

The candy-tinted world we're seeing has a terrible history: while Finn is surrounded by magical beings, virtually every other human appears to have been killed or transformed, during something called the Mushroom War, which included, according to one unnerving voice-over, "frightful bombs poised to bathe the land in mutogenic horror".

Yorkshire dismissed Middlesex for 128 but their title hopes look over with Durham poised for victory over Notts.

As suggested by X-ray crystallography of product complexes (16) and observed in molecular dynamics simulations, AHL substrates bind with the less hindered re face of the lactone ring facing the dinuclear metal center with the ring's carbonyl oxygen poised over Zn1 and the leaving group oxygen over Zn2.

Stuart looks dejected, his fingers still poised over the buttons.

I stand over him, knife poised to kill.

I held the bag poised over the spoon.

This one, poised over the Nabokov story, is perhaps more explicit.

Netanyahu's regulatory sword is similarly poised over Channel Two, Israel's dominant commercial television channel.