Sentence examples similar to poised to empty from inspiring English sources

In this single-channel video, men and women, with impassive expressions on their dark faces and brand-name logos on their worn shirts and caps, cross the tarmac to climb an airplane's roll-away stair; the camera pulls back to show them poised to step into empty space.

WASHINGTON — The parents of a girl who said she had been molested on a school bus seemed poised to win what may turn out to be an empty victory, judging from the justices' questions on Tuesday at the Supreme Court.

Repeated claims by Kenyan authorities that they were poised to bring an end to the siege have so far proven empty.

Hoteliers found themselves with a multitude of empty rooms even as a gaggle of unnecessary new hotels was poised to open.Other industries have suffered even more.

In May, Arbed was poised to gobble up Germany's Salzgitter, but nationalist politicians thwarted the deal.In this section Empty rooms?

Ovechkin got a seventh shot at him in the shootout, but as he skated to the net and cut to his right to create an opening, ­Georgiev tossed his stick to knock the puck away from Ovechkin, who was poised to score into the ­empty net.

It seemed poised to improve.

Instead, Congress seems poised to do less.

Still, office development seems poised to rebound.

He is poised to give a third.

I was poised to write cult.