Then, once they had paused to check the departures board, they hurried over to the far platform where the next train stood in readiness, ticking over, waiting to take them back into town.
Not least is that President Saddam Hussein has shown no readiness to hand over his rule to a royal pretender, not even a svelte, pinstriped former investment banker like Sharif Ali.
At that ceremony, there were speeches about Iraq's readiness to take over responsibility of the Green Zone, children sang songs and a poem was read about Iraqi unity.
The new resolution will lift the arms embargo against Iraq, allowing the country to rearm its 80,000-strong army in readiness for taking over the nation's security once coalition forces finally leave.
It is a full-fledged swipe at Mr. McCain's age and health, and a direct attack on Ms. Palin's readiness to take over as president if necessary.
The occurrence of large-scale attacks in a city that is as heavily policed and thoroughly walled-off as Baghdad has fueled anger at the Iraqi security forces and has raised questions about their readiness to take over from the Americans, who are scheduled to pull out of Iraqi cities on June 30.
His choice of them as targets probably reflects his readiness to take over from Epicurus (most likely drawing on the latter's On nature books 14 and 15) the critiques which the school founder had felt it appropriate to launch in his own historical context.
The attention to such exotic flora and fauna is part of the Pentagon's new strategy to gain permission from Congress for exemptions from environmental rules it says have bedeviled its training and readiness mission over the years.
Since the Spanish Armament of 1790, the Royal Navy had been at sea in a state of readiness for over three years.
The Children's Defense Fund's Southern Regional Office (CDF-SRO) was honored to be the grantee for SPARK Mississippi (SPARK-MS), a $5 million initiative that has improved school readiness for over 800 Mississippi children ages three to eight -- a concrete example of what's working to improve children's chances.
