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Sebastian Bock, investment campaigner at Greenpeace, said it was clear the bank was not ready to answer questions at the shareholder meeting, but welcomed its readiness to look again at the project.
"We've seen some red [warning signs] in terms of the readiness of the offices of DfID to prepare for the scale of funding that has suddenly come through their doors and the skills they need to oversee that funding effectively," said Mark Foster, a commissioner at Icai and author of the report.
For blood pressure it seems obvious that inheritance within groups is irrelevant to divergence between them; for IQ there is a curious readiness to accept that such differences are due to genes.
She amazed me by her knowledge of our domestic developments, her understanding of the nature of changes then under way, her ability to evaluate them realistically and her readiness to share with us the experience of what she called "my own perestroika".
It hasn't helped that his government's negotiating tactics have become overwhelmingly perceived as having more to do with posturing and lecturing than with readiness to find a compromise.
Enduring constitutions nevertheless require three essential things: first, a general recognition that there is a problem that needs solving; second, a shared willingness to produce a shared outcome; and, third, a degree of readiness and goodwill to make that outcome a lasting settlement.
Admirers cite Kennedy's televised address to the nation, referring to the battle over racial segregation as a "moral crisis", and his readiness to use the National Guard to force the whites-only universities of the south to open up to black students.
And I am sad at the readiness of people to disparage the work of Ed Miliband.
As the Lib Dems warm to their new-found power, enjoying law-making and authority – particularly in their readiness to seek greater press restrictions rather than enforce current law more effectively – I worry if anyone is a true liberal any more.
Justin Jones of Dank Colorado in Denver picked up his s grower's and retailer's licences for recreational pot on Friday to add to his newly-acquired state licence in readiness for expanding his medical business for recreational purchases on 1 January.
One of the greatest debaters, orators and communicators, who brought humour to politics, he was a man who effortlessly combined rock-like conviction with an openness to argument and a readiness to listen.
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The primary grammatical function of "readiness" is as a noun , typically representing the state or quality of being prepared. As evidenced by Ludwig AI, it can function as the subject or object of a sentence.
Expression frequency: Very common
