Sentence examples for readiness according from inspiring English sources

The commander of the Soviet submarine, which had a nuclear-tipped torpedo, "summoned the officer who was assigned to the nuclear torpedo and ordered him to assemble it to battle readiness," according to a Soviet document made available at the conference.

Living with the ever-present threat of the Big One – a huge quake that experts say is due to strike Tokyo in the coming decades – has turned the city into the world capital of disaster readiness, according to 2020 organising officials.

They received further training on the identification of high risk pregnancies, according to the RCHC-4, and potential pregnancy danger signs, birth preparedness and complication readiness according to the FANC manual.

Israel, Finland and Sweden are seen as leading the way in "cyber-readiness", according to a major new security report.

The two Marine Corps CH-53 helicopters that collided off the coast of Hawaii earlier this year, killing all 12 crew members, are part of a family of aging marine aircraft hardest hit by maintenance and readiness shortfalls, according to the Corps' highest-ranking officer.

At the beginning of the intervention, all participants were in the third stage of readiness ("the preparation stage") according to the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change.

The content of the structured questionnaire included smoking related information such as daily cigarette consumption, nicotine dependency assessed by the Fagerstrom test [ 22], stage of readiness to quit according to TTM [ 23] and previous quit attempts.

Provision of C-sections was assessed on records of C-sections having been performed in the facility in past three months according to WHO Service Availability and Readiness Assessment definitions [ 43].

That was only half the story in assessing readiness for export, though, according to Bowden.

As Labour leader and prime minister, one of Blair's defining characteristics was his readiness – canny or disgraceful, according to political taste – to make accommodations with powerful rightwing interest groups, not least the Murdoch press.

A public appeal from Annan and fellow mediators, including the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, for Eta to embrace peace will provide the group with an excuse for declaring its readiness to abandon arms, according to sources.