Sentence examples for poised by from inspiring English sources

A more potent threat is poised by the Lib Dem's Ms Dunn.

In those years, poised by our living room windows, and unable to play with any friends, I spent many an hour watching the street, where life, in a quite New York way, merrily unfolded.

And while they are all too aware of the threats poised by terrorism, they are insistent that expanded markets and trade are essential to chip away at the roots of poverty.

In a wood-paneled conference room flanking a row of idle Finnish saunas, Mr. Elop spoke pointedly about his efforts to retool the world's largest maker of mobile phones to meet the challenges poised by Apple, Google and a host of Asian rivals led by Samsung, LG, ZTE and Huawei.

We then follow Oscar – a shy, sensitive boy, older-than-his-years and superbly portrayed by Harry McEntire in a performance that is as emotionally transparent as a blush – through misadventures of affection that leave him purified, so to speak, of false expectations and so poised by the end in stoical, tentative hope.

The whole of the Magnum agency went on location to shoot John Huston's filming of The Misfits (1961), but it was Arnold's intimate portraits of Marilyn Monroe, fragile and poised by turn (including one incredible image, where she emerges from the black of a nightclub into the white glare of the spotlight, boogying uncertainly with a smiling Arthur Miller), that endured.

It was emblematic of a poised performance by the Rangers.

Downstairs are the works on paper, including some skillfully poised abstracts by Ms. Park, Ms. Parsons, Mr. Ernst and others.

Handling is light, fairly poised and by no means trucklike; again it compares well with car-platform SUVs like the Mercedes-Benz ML320 and the RX 300.

Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: The colossus of Sydney… News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch is poised hard by the triumph of his career.

This industry is uniquely poised - by virtue of its cost competitiveness and maturity as a technology - to lead America's economic renaissance, but it won't happen without bold leadership.