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The biological world always seems poised to innovate.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Being a pageant girl taught me to be polished, poised and slap on a smile.
But I am poised to restart qawwali and have a spiritual album of it available.
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Personally, scoring goals creates confidence and I gain the mental stability and get poised from it.
It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
Don't let my facial expressions fool you. I try to stay poised and calm at all times, but I'm having a blast.
I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.
As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.
It would have been more comfortable for us as a society if Anita Hill wasn't as intelligent, poised, and credible as she was.
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
When times are good, a CEO should remain poised and composed. When times are difficult, a CEO should remain poised and composed.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
We are poised for greatness here in Miramar, our foundation is sound, the question is what are we going to do with the foundation?
I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.
The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.
I learned that you're going to be tested in the NFL. There's going to be highs, there's going to be lows. You got to stay poised through it all.
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.
All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.
I am poised and confident in what I do, so I think whether it's shot clock winding down in the playoffs or regular season game, I'm going to have the same mentality.
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.
Our focus is on electing Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Democrats across the country, thanks to Democratic Party that is strong, unified, and poised for victory in November.
In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany, silly, sometimes foolish person that I am. I could let the raw edges show.
While there are certainly things that I admire and respect in each of the remaining candidates, I believe Donald Trump is the candidate best poised to make America great again.
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
I'm a very competitive person, but at the same time, as a quarterback, you gotta be poised; you gotta be very poised and patient. I'm pretty loose and relaxed, but I'm also very competitive.
I see it along our northern border - the importance of security must be balanced with humane enforcement policies that don't bully schoolchildren who are poised to contribute to our society.
I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.
The 'Frampton' album sold better than all of the other solo records that I'd had, put together. It was over 300,000 copies, so that was a good signal that we were poised for my first gold record.
We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band.
Much like CBS and CNN are run by liberal billionaires, Sinclair is run by a rich conservative, so there are natural questions to be asked, especially when Sinclair is poised to become such a powerhouse.
I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
Black Widow' is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light and darkness. She becomes this poised and powerful creature. That's the album.
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.
I'm not a very emotional guy. I just move on to the next play. I've always been that way. I don't like showing much. I just try to do my job and get out. It's important to stay poised until that clock says zero.
When I first started at HSN, I knew that retailers would have to be poised to take advantage of technology and the rapidly changing ways in which people shop. It was one of the things that drew me to the company.
The implication that women are poised to make unfounded accusations in droves is even more alarming when every piece of data on false reporting contradicts that false notion. We need to believe women and believe in women.
What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.