(1) ‘Transferring power’ on a meaningless date to an unready government will similarly betray their hopes.(2) Despite his ten billion years of preparation, he found himself to be unready .(3) 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.(4) If you wait until you're totally ‘ready’ for marriage… well, I mean, lots of us are definitely unready for marriage, but is anybody totally ready?(5) Still, they seem as yet unready to take what they've got as far as they could, erring on the side of discretion.(6) This program was considered heresy because the mortgage markets felt a person who did not have a down payment for purchase of a home was somehow unfit or unready for homeownership.(7) The gentle way to read this is that Arnold is simply unready for a six-way, unscripted debate.(8) More likely, the L.A. Times doesn't really know much about what causes military units to be ready or unready - or, if it knows, it isn't really accurately telling us in this story.(9) The new protests began when municipality officials said the dump could not be closed, since the new locations were still unready .(10) However, to protect small electricity users, the government will retain full control over the power industry in areas deemed unready for open competition.(11) I suspect, however, that such eagerness can backfire: that the socially unready child will rebel or withdraw.(12) But he did say we were unready , and that was wrong.(13) About half of all prisoners coming to Grendon leave too early; most return to the system after only a few months in the assessment wing, because they are judged by staff to be unready for full-blown group psychotherapy.(14) Athelstane's nickname was the Unready - not coward or lazy, but unready , and slow to act, even in the name of his Saxon heritage.(15) Six years ago Martin, aged 41, from Leigh, had low-self esteem, lacked confidence and was unready for employment.(16) Built in Glasgow in 1910, this vessel tramped her way around the globe for the next three decades, until she was requisitioned by an Admiralty hurriedly preparing for a war it was desperately unready to fight.
