Getting ready

Usage examples of preparing.

Behind this shield Rommel withdrew all his forces to Agedabia, which he held against our attacks while preparing the strong Agheila position to which he withdrew unmolested on January 7.

For some time these troops were neither rendered strong enough to attack nor occupied in preparing a defensive system against a counter-stroke.

In spite of the shocks and stresses which each day brought, I did not grudge the twelve or fourteen hours of concentrated thought which ten thousand words of original composition on a vast, many-sided subject demanded, and while the flames of adverse war in the Desert licked my feet, I succeeded in preparing my statement and appreciation of our case.

Navy has been definitely slack in preparing for this submarine war off our coast.

Even while it was in progress Yamamoto, the Japanese Admiralissimo, was preparing to challenge American power in the Central Pacific by seizing Midway Island, with its airfield, from which Pearl Harbour itself, another thousand miles to the east, could be threatened and perhaps dominated.

Pacific bear too heavily on the great effort the United States was preparing to exert in Europe.

This will entail preparing adequate runways, homing devices, and possibly fog-clearing gear on the aerodromes, and de-icing and blind-landing equipment, etc.

We must of course meet day-to-day emergencies in the East and Far East while preparing for the main stroke.

If his reply is satisfactory I will then make a firm offer to Stalin, which might not be operative till November, but which would enable immediate work to be started on surveying and preparing the landing-grounds and would give us access to the Russian sphere in Persia and the Caucasus.

We are preparing ten ships to sail individually during the October dark.

However, in case the enemy should weaken sufficiently we are preparing to strike earlier than August, and plans are kept alive from week to week.

Enemy clearly intends to stand and fight, and I am preparing for a dogfight battle in Mareth area, which may last several days.

Inflamed by publications and harangues on every side, the Americans had been active in preparing for the approaching contest.

They only meant to amuse, by vague expressions of attachment to the parent state, and the strongest protestations of loyalty to me, whilst they were preparing for a general revolt.

France and Spain both smarted under the disgrace of the late wars, and burned for revenge, whence there was every reason to apprehend that the armaments they were preparing, under various pretences, would ultimately be employed against England.