Sentence examples for were geared up with from inspiring English sources

Many were geared up — with helmets, shields and padding — for a confrontation at the park, just blocks from the campus and Berkeley High School.

"We were geared up tactically with heavy weapons," Lieutenant Serras said, "which of course we shed before we went in the water".

"We are geared up with pamphlets that we will be sending out to all of the out-of-state taxpayers and to tax preparers," said Marc Carey, spokesman for the Department of Taxation and Finance.

We're geared up in terms of the infrastructure spending, we are geared up with task forces that have completed their work, which have developed work plans, identified where there are gaps in workforce finance.

Their enzymes are geared up to cope with them.

There were no natural wide midfielders in the starting 11 and everything was geared up the middle with defensive-minded players.

"For insurers, this is the type of weather they expect during the winter months and [they] are geared up to deal with these events," she said.

But even if Xi Jinping wanted to change direction he would have to tackle a vast security and government apparatus that has been geared up to deal with the Tibet issue, says Bi Yantao, a professor at Hainan University.

"But if I'm geared up to deal with something collectively," he declared, "then the decision comes quite easily.

In the meantime, even as the state is working on implementing bundled treatments for a first round of medical conditions, it is gearing up with the second round.

Meanwhile the publishing industry is gearing up with the Frankfurt book fair, the avalanche of books just released on "Super Thursday", and the rush for pre-Christmas sales.