Sentence examples for while they were preparing from inspiring English sources

While they were preparing it, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

"What are you going to do now?" While they were preparing to leave, a woman in a black chador walked in with a scruffy teen-age boy and silently took a seat.

However, Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, described a "dirty, immoral operation," in which he said Palestinian officers doing mundane, postmidnight guard duty were killed while they were preparing a late-night snack.

At Public School 10 on the edge of Park Slope, Brooklyn, parents begged the principal to postpone the lower school science fair, insisting it was going to add too much pressure while they were preparing their children for the coming state tests.

They revealed that while they were preparing dishes such as the £60.80 butter-poached lobster with almonds, peas and a bisque sauce for guests including Paul McCartney, Adele and the Queen, they were working between 62 and 68 hours a week for £375 before tax.

And what if it's your own culture you're trying to understand? "Off the Menu," which will air on PBS in December, follows Lee on a road trip in search of Asian-American stories, from a community-run organic farm in Hawaii to the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, where, in 2012, a white supremacist gunned down members while they were preparing langar, the traditional communal meal that is open to anyone.

But American military officials indicated that while they were prepared to help Japan grapple with any problems related to its nuclear facilities, they had not been asked to do so.

This time around, shares moved down in an orderly fashion, and after it was over, some traders and investors said that while they were prepared for company profits to grow at a slower pace, they were not worried that earnings would disappear.

"We have to look at some alternatives," Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama told The A.P. One after another throughout the session, senators from both parties said that, while they were prepared to move fast, they were far from ready to give the administration everything it wanted in its proposed $700 billion plan to buy up and hopefully resell troubled mortgage-backed securities.

While they were prepared to make a stand in the case of the chief justice, since it touched on the judiciary's own self-preservation, they were not ready to derail the entire system by challenging a military chief who could then invoke martial law.

Participants indicated that while they were prepared to persevere with this relatively demanding decision-making process in an interview situation, while shopping they were unlikely to have done so and would have given up much sooner.