Sentence examples for test their readiness from inspiring English sources

He might as well have been at the counter of Sex Machines, his life a site where others came to test their readiness for what they feared were their disallowed yearnings.

KeySpan directed 650 commercial and institutional customers to turn off the gas for eight hours last Wednesday to test their readiness to switch to heating oil this winter in the event gas supplies grow tight.

Mukuka claimed that his father wasn't just training the cadets for space travel, though; Nkoloso was also testing their "readiness for independence" in a political sense.

Its navy deployed destroyers and submarines off its eastern coast to test their combat readiness.

Before it approved new dividends, the Fed required banks to test their crisis-readiness against several criteria, like elevated unemployment, but it did not release detailed results of the tests.

Until today, none of the vendors have been able to truly test their state of readiness.

These atmospheric and underwater tests were often carried out in the presence of so-called "atomic veterans" – soldiers stationed near the explosion to test their force's readiness in response to a nuclear attack.

That will be the time of the leaders — Netanyahu, Abbas and Obama — and the test of their readiness for risk in the name of a peace that can only come with painful concessions.

All eight aircraft were complete by 1 November and had been tested to ensure their readiness to participate in the parade.

South Korea and the United States, which led condemnation of North Korea's latest missile tests at the Conference on Disarmament, said their military drills were to test defensive readiness against possible aggression from the North.

An exercise held last month to test military readiness was a success, Abkhaz officials said.