The flying tourbillon - mounted on a single axis - is topped by the initial "P", which adds to the complexity of the poising.

Almost the poising of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping the materials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.

Positional adjustments are attained by careful poising (ensuring even weight distribution) of the balance-hairspring system as well as careful control of the shape and polish on the balance pivots.

Round and round the eagle soared, higher and higher, with each perfect circle, and at last, for an instant poising as lightly as if he were about to perch on his lonely crag, he arched his wings and swooped down through the air with the swiftness of a falling arrow.

She seemed not to feel there was anything irregular about the guard escorting Maggie poising his spear at his leader's niece's neck Moonshine quietly allowed his captors to remove their sling and ropes, thinking to bite them as soon as he was free, but Primrose shrieked and bucked and gouged and whinnied.

Kuypers then started a long series of collaborative studies in which injuries to some of these connections in the monkey's brain were correlated with the defects they produced in performance of movements; the poising of an arm, for instance, to carry out an operation with the fingers could be dissociated from the ability to use the fingers skilfully.

To anyone else, he would have seemed a model of poise.

You seem to be the only one in the party with any poise.

When the poise had died away, he looked up again.

But he has always been best known for his poise and decision making.

Over the course of the day, his poise on the stand grew.

For the first time the fat man had lost his poise.

"We have to learn how to play with more poise."

I think the poise is a hell of a lot better right now.

"But I think they had the edge on us in poise and experience."

But something of a more real me had come in with great strength and poise.

Complete poise, in any situation, is given to few men.

In a tough game like this, you have to keep your poise.

But he always seemed to keep his poise and sense of humor.

The Giants' poise came into play late in the game.

Maybe he wanted the same sense of poise and certainty.

Peter was the only one who kept his normal poise.

What was there so familiar in the poise of that figure?

They have kept their poise and stood up to perhaps the league's most physical team.

She turned back to the girl, who was trying to recover her poise.

"I thought he had great energy and real good poise.

But the four Giants kept their poise, held themselves ready.

To get to that point of poise, Cohen needed four years and 6,000 miles.

"There's some young guys who try to make you lose your poise."

Even if she offered, with all her poise and faith in herself.

She will answer with the poise and grace of a 12-year-old who has lived around the world.

Another was poised to buy a house she had never seen.

I am now poised low over the city of Washington.

He was poised to break and run hard at any second.

This seems a good point for him to be so poised.

One at a time, they stand poised 15 feet above the river.

No one knew what to do, but everyone was poised to fight.

If someone was poised behind her door he would have heard it.

"Having got the company poised for future growth, I felt like the time was right."

Then again, the stock market could be poised for a fall.

And perhaps no one has ever appeared so poised for more of the same.

And if any city seems poised to do so, it's Washington.

He is already poised to become a significant voice in the national debate over education.

A growing number of people are poised to take that chance.

But he is poised to help the Administration more directly, if asked.

I know how to play poised in both my professional and personal life.

Poised there, he could look down at the river from on high.

India is poised to again be a great world power.

He may be poised to prove people wrong in a big way.

"People were poised to sell no matter what the number was."

Poised in the sun's image were people that he knew.

He felt poised on the edge of something about to happen.

A woman who stood in the dark poised, to kill him.

And right now, he has about a million of these people poised off the California coast.

A moment later he stood with the heavy head poised in front of the door.

"We are poised to play a very important role and move into center stage," he said.