Sentence examples for were already prepared from inspiring English sources

So governments were already prepared at the Auckland Commonwealth summit in 1995, when Abacha committed the provocative act of executing Ken Sand-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders.

As every sophisticated observer of the Court knew, the Court did not ask whether cases should be overruled unless a majority of the Justices were already prepared to do so.

BERLIN — When German officials headed to the NATO summit in Brussels this week, they were already prepared for what they considered to be an inevitable attack by President Trump over their low defense spending.

Several groups representing minority voters said they were less interested in the process than in the results but were already prepared to seek legal redress if the new district lines did not help their growing communities.

"It's hard to sort of feel anything at the moment because we know realistically it's going to go to a further appeal by the defendants, probably sometime in spring, so I think we were already prepared for that before this evening's decision," he said.

The testimony that remained said, "Climate change is anticipated to have a broad range of impacts on the health of Americans and the nation's public health infrastructure". But a line saying "the public health effects of climate change remain largely unaddressed" was gone, and the testimony focused on the ways health agencies were already prepared to tackle any problems.

Chinese banks were already preparing to curb these assets.

Officials were already preparing for a difficult morning commute.

He adds, "At that point, we were already preparing for the post-war world".

Serpico and Chang were already preparing course number four, the scallop dish with the foaming dashi.

Many of the nation's leaders were already preparing for Ms. Rousseff's suspension.