readiness *

At the moment our state of readiness is not good.

"We are going to place our military at a higher state of readiness."

Thus he must always be in a state of readiness.

Though readiness was never going to be a problem for him.

But first she was to go home and have everything in readiness.

Go then and bring me word when all is in readiness.

I am in readiness, when you have need of me.

But his readiness for trouble did not let up at all.

Ten minutes of three and now everything was in readiness.

They were given the name for their readiness to protect the city and university.

I must hold myself in complete readiness for when the moment came.

We let our troops and arms fall out of readiness.

Given 70 percent readiness, 24 may be available for battle.

There must be greater readiness to deal with this issue, too.

This means that readiness is not something we must wait for.

By late 1948 the 340 had been developed to production readiness.

There he could be in readiness for what might follow.

He had a gun in readiness, but it was not needed.

"That is why I have a car here in readiness."

Patients were asked to place themselves on a readiness scale of 1 to 10.

To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness.

And it kept nuclear forces in a high state of readiness.

This kind of spending is considered more important for readiness.

Then when all was in readiness, we had word of invasion.

Washington soon showed its readiness to work with the new British government.