Sentence examples for readiness at the from inspiring English sources

"We'll be trying to recover lost readiness at the same time that we're trying to reshape the force.

Mr. Obama still does not have an intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security, nor a top civilian in charge of military readiness at the Pentagon.

Wilkie is in only his eighth month leading Veterans Affairs, which he took over following a tour as undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the Pentagon.

Social class has a big impact on children's school readiness at the age of three, but continues to drag children back through school and beyond.

Wilkie has been leading VA for about eight months, and came to the role after serving as under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the Pentagon.

They've sacrificed so much for that Olympic athlete standing in readiness at the starting line, diving platform or — with hands chalked and body taut — before the uneven bars.

The experience gaps, which are a particular problem at midlevel positions, place the department's "diplomatic readiness at risk," the report says.

The Praetorian Guard, his palace guard, abandoned him, and his freedmen left to embark on the ships he kept in readiness at Ostia, the port of Rome.

See also Morton v. Lamb, 7 T. R. 125, as to the necessity of averring readiness at least in the declaration, to do the plaintiff's part, (where something is to be done by both parties to a contract at the same time), in order to entitle him to recover against the defendant for not performing his part.

Everything being in readiness at eight o'clock, the Emperor and Empress appeared on the balcony.

After an assignment to assess the state of readiness at naval bases on the West Coast, he was drawn into the White House in 1944, where he began a career, as the columnist James Reston once put it, of rescuing American Presidents from disaster.