Sentence examples for poised from from inspiring English sources

Sontag seems to have been preternaturally poised from the start, buoyed by an unshakable belief in her own august destiny.

Indeed, Singapore is well poised from a number of different perspectives to influence international health development, especially since it has an efficient health-care system that provides high-quality universal health care while spending just 3-43-4% its gross domestic product on health [13].

Her attendants in the scene were four remarkably poised students from the School of American Ballet: Jan Burkhard, Rachel Mallory, Abigail Simon and Isabel Vondermuhll.

There was more bitter laughter, as well as fabulously poised prose, from Edward St Aubyn in Mother's Milk.

This standard-bearing version of the holiday classic, featuring 50 marvelously poised students from the School of American Ballet, remains enchanting for all ages.

The Algerians also had a surprisingly poised performance from the young goalkeeper Raïs M'Bolhi, who had never started an international game for his country.

The new deal will take in the 2020-21 candaign and the number of live games are poised to rise from 69 to 80 per season from 2017-18 under the agreement.

The Celtics, who rallied from a 24-point deficit to win Game 4 in 2008, appeared poised to rally from a 20-point deficit to begin the fourth.

Schleck, another top climber, also is poised to benefit from the mountain stages.

The combination created an international behemoth poised to benefit from the booming global economy.

Ironically, Republicans now appear poised to benefit from their obstructionism in the November elections.