Sentence examples for poised off from inspiring English sources

American soldiers are dying in Iraq almost daily, questions are continuing to swirl around the Bush administration's case for the March invasion and United States Marines are poised off the coast of Liberia.

The arena is darkened around the edges of the spotlight-blazed catwalk on which opponents face off, poised on their toes for maximum reaction-time.

Portland has the odd distinction of being both an up-and-coming team and one poised for off-season turmoil; LaMarcus Aldridge should be in Portland through 2015, but the vision of this balanced squad building on its success through continuity is fading, if only because of the Blazers' potential for roster volatility.

Zuckerberg might come off as arrogant, but if you were running a company that seemed poised to shrug off two days of congressional hearings, wouldn't you be?

She's poised to take off".

Basalt seems poised to take off.

Now, she said, Red Scarf Equestrian, based in Toronto, is poised to take off.

"We think the commercial space industry is poised to take off.

I saw this in Africa, where nations moving beyond conflict are now poised to take off.

"I did my research and it was clear the game was poised to take off here.

"Half of the bombers are poised for take off within minutes," says the film.