Sentence examples for were so unprepared from inspiring English sources

White House officials were so unprepared that they did not even have a staff member standing by with a tape recorder, standard operating procedure, and had to rely on the broadcast by Cable News Network like everyone else.

The Republicans were so unprepared for Mr. Mathias's announce-ment that for weeks they could not find any popular politicians willing to run in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1. Enter the 39-year-old Ms. Chavez, who moved to the Maryland suburbs of Washington two years ago and only last year switched her affiliation to Republican.

Brokerage houses were so unprepared for the drying up of the lucrative IPO business in 2001 that triage is set to continue in 2002.

We were so unprepared for it," said PlayJam CMO Anthony Johnson, who notes that stretch goals such as a charging dock were conceived out of thin air in a matter of hours before they even knew if they were feasible.

I would say his resignation has just as much to do with the failures of that war, where Israeli soldiers were so unprepared that they had to raid Lebanese shops for food, as his corruption investigation.

In some dispiriting cases, the students are so unprepared that academic failure seems inevitable.

Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event.

"I have never been so unprepared for a trial in my entire career," he said.

How could the Giants be so unprepared mentally for such a challenge?

Sunday's demonstrations were a clear success, not least because the Kremlin was so unprepared for them.

"I was so unprepared really for the life I was embarking on," the now 32-year-old explained.