Sentence examples for were prepared to handle from inspiring English sources

Neither states nor nonprofit groups were prepared to handle 20 to 30 times more money than usual.

"We were prepared to handle a plane returning to J.F.K. with reports of engine problems," said a spokeswoman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Not all of the states were prepared to handle it, and here, at least, much of the money never fulfilled its promise.

The immigrants requesting two-year deportation deferrals do not reach the high estimates of 250,000 that officials had said they were prepared to handle in the first month of the program, which is President Obama's most significant immigration initiative.

Amit Shaked, vice president of products and marketing at WeFi, said that the wireless industry had been forced to think more broadly about how to deal with the demand for mobile data, which has been greater than they were prepared to handle.

My staff and I were prepared to handle a negative response but instead were so overwhelmed with the positive response from our staff.

To be honest, I don't think [the authorities are prepared to handle the situation].

Toy companies say they are already stepping up their own testing and are prepared to handle the situation themselves.

Six months after nuclear-related sanctions were officially lifted, not a single tier-one European bank is prepared to handle Iranian payments.

But if your truck cuts someone off or the driver gets into a big collision that ends up on TV, you better be prepared to handle the image problems".

But what communications technology is prepared to handle 20 billion connections — with some emanating from planes over oceans, a pipeline across desolate tundra or an oil platform in the North Sea?