Sentence examples for poor state of readiness from inspiring English sources

Major General Lauris Norstad, responsible for reporting the readiness of American airpower to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, heard from unhappy airmen that the SAC was in a poor state of readiness, and he initiated an investigation.

The main reason for German superiority in the air was the poor state of French air units' operational readiness.

By smelling and tasting the doe's urine, the buck will determine her state-of-readiness for breeding.

And the Air Force has fighters at a high state of readiness, ready to swoop in on hijacked passenger planes.

That readiness began to ebb when Germans realized the perils of institutionalized bailouts after their own reunification in 1990, said the economist Christian Deubner, and ended up transferring billions into the poor states of the former communist East.

The piss-poor state of all this.

The Russian Army's state of readiness might fall well short of Western standards.

You are ready to act but are also open and in a state of readiness to react appropriately when needed.

He likened the state of readiness here to T.C.C.O.R".

In Westchester, the state of readiness is palpable.

At the moment our state of readiness is not good.