With cutting-edge equipment and a staff of 90 producers, scriptwriters and crew members, the station was poised to transform city schoolchildren into wide-eyed vessels for daily educational TV.
In 1989, Battersea Power Station was poised to become the most audacious, and ambitious theme park in the world.
Then, during an extensive interview on Chile's most popular radio station, the typically poised president vigorously defended the way her government had managed the crisis and gave way to emotion, saying, "Everyone claims to be a general after the war".
"The stronger stations are now poised to really dominate in these markets, and the smaller stations are now less able to compete, because all around, the economics are not working for them," he said.
Rocket planes, orbital taxis and commercial space stations are all poised, like the jets before them, to open our vistas as never before.
Blackforce was stationed at Buitenzorg, poised to advance west to confront the invaders.
Reaching 40percentt of U.S. households, Sinclair is the nation's largest owner of local TV stations and is poised to greatly expand its influence.
As the global nuclear power industry strives to limit the immediate fallout — both physical and political — from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan, Europe is poised to enshrine a final solution for its long-term radioactive wastes, the industry's most persistent public-relations problem.
Eastern time, furniture fans are stationed at their computers, poised to point and click.
But with its sleek new railway station now in place, the city is poised to become a crucial transport link between the economic centres of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
