Sentence examples for real preparations from inspiring English sources

The by-now-familiar refrain that Mr. Bush has not yet made any decisions about Iraq may literally be correct, in the sense that he may not yet have approved a war plan, but it smacks of the semantic games that administrations often play to disguise very real preparations for war.

The coach willl take the squad to Johannesburg on Monday and says "the real preparations for tournament start now".

Other U.S. intelligence officials have noted North Korea has previously sent deliberately misleading signs of preparations for missile and nuclear tests, in part to mask real preparations, and in part to test U.S. and allied intelligence on its activities.

With all the anticipation and chaos that a wedding can cause, it is easy to forget that the real preparations are neither the color of the flowers nor the font on the invitations, but the resulting years to come.

However, it must be emphasized that vacant bridging sites must be present in the T∞ layer in some real preparations because of the observed Q Q2P correlation as well as Q Q.

No real preparation required on my part.

They were both delighted for the 30-year-old American, and secretly pleased to see that Venus could not simply waltz back into tennis at this level without any real preparation.

How will New Zealand cope with being parachuted into the MCG with no real preparation or warm-up?

Before I hit record on my iPhone, I politely kick the startup's perfectly affable PR flack out of the room, and explain to Takeuchi that the only real preparation I've done for this assignment is to have a brief call with Matt Robinson, who, along with Monzo Bank's Tom Blomfield, co-founded GoCardless with Takeuchi in 2011 but has since left to found property tech startup Nested.

But now is when the real preparation for college begins.

The young folks have expressed their exhaustion with going to schools that look like prisons, and lack real preparation for life.