| Despite his ten billion years of preparation, he found himself to be unready. |
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| They require the turning of America's vast and fantastically expensive intelligence apparatus towards a threat which it was unready to face. |
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| Six years ago Martin, aged 41, from Leigh, had low-self esteem, lacked confidence and was unready for employment. |
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| The new protests began when municipality officials said the dump could not be closed, since the new locations were still unready. |
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| In my opinion, it is unconscionable for a nation to send untrained or unready soldiers into battle. |
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| Still, they seem as yet unready to take what they've got as far as they could, erring on the side of discretion. |
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| The media was full of news of drugs, the fragging of officers and of unready forces around the world. |
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| The gentle way to read this is that Arnold is simply unready for a six-way, unscripted debate. |
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| They gave battle but faint-heartedly, being all unready for an enemy, and presently threw down their arms and begged for quarter. |
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| A flight that has landed is unready and must be made ready before it can take off again in that scenario. |
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| Although drinking well in the late 1970s, noted several times as unready during the early part of the next decade. |
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| John Huston, whose 1969 A Walk with Love and Death starred his unready teenage daughter, made it up to her by directing her Oscar-winning performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor. |
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| Such ones do not sell Wisdom in the markets nor do they attract the unready, unprepared and unwilling ones. |
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| As the king unready to govern Simon Bartlett gave what could be called the performance of a lifetime, his lisping accentuating the monarch's worldly innocence. |
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| However, to protect small electricity users, the government will retain full control over the power industry in areas deemed unready for open competition. |
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| This is the dream of the inclusively-minded few, for which many regard humanity as yet unready. |
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| Families unready for change may benefit from counseling or deferral of treatment. |
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| But I've noticed that the late night comedians have really started ratcheting up the criticism of him, and this notion of him being kind of dumb and unready is taking hold. |
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| The TTP looks unready to accept minimum preconditions: a ceasefire and recognition of Pakistan's constitution. |
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| The darling of the tea-partiers has undergone a brilliant reinvention since showing herself unready as John McCain's running-mate. |
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| Others were simply unready and unprotected when the Menem government threw open Argentina's markets to foreign competition. |
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| In countries where the domestic financial sector needs improvement or still unready to compete with foreign competitors, GATS articles limit the government's ability to make this a priority. |
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| In two televised debates she proved herself a notch above Ms Rousseff and Mr Neves, whose strategy of branding her as radical and unready to govern is wearing thin. |
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| The situation must also be avoided, whereby unready Member States are tempted to take retaliatory measures to obstruct operators from countries which have caused difficulties for their own transport companies. |
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| But it is also the hour of danger and of menace for the unwary and the unready, for the ambitious, the ignorant, and for these who selfishly seek the Way and who refuse to tread the path of service with pure motive. |
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| The hold and reach of the civilian authorities may be weak, and their legitimacy may continue to be challenged by groups unready to accept a final outcome. |
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| The EU as a whole should do everything possible within the law, to ensure that disruption to road transport operators from unready EU Member States is limited to the greatest possible extent. |
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| Any number of flights may be unready or in revetments at an airfield. |
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| His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready. |
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| After the death of Ethelred the Unready in 1016, the throne of England passed to Canute. |
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| Both King Ethelred the Unready and Olaf's sister Astrid allegedly received gifts from Olaf long after he was presumed dead. |
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| Earlier in the same year he witnessed a charter of King Ethelred the Unready as Eaduuine dux. |
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