How To Use Unready In A Sentence
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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.
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While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there.
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Athelstane's nickname was the Unready - not coward or lazy, but unready, and slow to act, even in the name of his Saxon heritage.
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`I'm ready," said Katrina, feeling distinctly unready, feeling distinctly unsure about the wisdom of what she was doing.
FINAL RESORT
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Although his previous sailing experience was limited, his boat unready and the electronic gadgetry of his own design unfinished and untested, Crowhurst had managed to persuade everyone to regard him as a serious contender.
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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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The media was full of news of drugs, the fragging of officers and of unready forces around the world.
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she cursed her unready tongue
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We could have got married to ‘legitimise’ it but at 16, we were both very young and unready for bringing up a family.
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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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I suspect, however, that such eagerness can backfire: that the socially unready child will rebel or withdraw.
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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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Her carpet-bagging defeat of an unready, ill-prepared opponent may have proved her electability, but it was a risk-free run in one of the most left-liberal states in the country.
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It is a huge story, full of facts, and Fraser spurns equivocation and doubt as she explains why Alfred was great and Ethelred was unready, why King John was not a good man and Nelson and Wellington were brilliant.
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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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‘Transferring power’ on a meaningless date to an unready government will similarly betray their hopes.
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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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My town, despite having been a centre for farmers and farming since just after Ethelred the Unready, has seen its show descend to an unsteady High Street parade of dodgy floats from offcumdens and the ghastly "carnival" run by the mafia and a Frank Warren wannabee (to judge by the number of fights).
Show Sunday
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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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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.
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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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His various and exotic knowledge, complete although unready sympathies, and fine, full, discriminative flow of language, fit him out to be the best of talkers; so perhaps he is with some, not quite with me — proxime accessit, I should say.
Memories and Portraits
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It means that children develop sexually much earlier, " Stanhope says. "They are physically ready for sexual reproduction but mentally completely unready.
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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?
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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.
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With time running down, the commission said management must develop alternative plans for stabling horses, including opening talks with Delaware Park, if Laurel is unready for training.
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After the death of Ethelred the Unready in 1016, the throne of England passed to Canute.
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He was known as Ethelred the Unready - not because of a lack of military preparation but because he was uncounselled or "unread".
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It means that children develop sexually much earlier, " Stanhope says. "They are physically ready for sexual reproduction but mentally completely unready.
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The monarch, better known as Aethelred the Unready due to his difficult reign, was known for using bands of Scandinavian mercenaries to carry out his bidding.
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His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready.
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Despite his ten billion years of preparation, he found himself to be unready.
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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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But he did say we were unready, and that was wrong.
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The lady all unready, alackaday!" put in the Honourable Isabel, from behind a fan to hide imaginary blushes.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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Harlow's Robert Halfon called Labour's approach "more Ethelred the Unready than Nixon in China" ? one of the day's more enigmatic remarks.
Sketch: What if the bankers were on benefits?
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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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It is laid down in German strategical textbooks that the time for making war is not when you have a political cause for it, but when your troops are ready and the enemy is unready; and that to strike the first blow is the best way to declare war.
My Adventures as a Spy
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The disorder of the gathering, manifest in the unready table as well as in the uncertain alliance among its members, resonates with the fleeting image of a bodhisattva that is unacknowledged and unseen.
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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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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.