unreadiness

The main problem of the League was the unreadiness of its members.

In reaction to his own unreadiness, Bush immediately overreached for an answer.

The unreadiness of governments to put money where the minister's mouth is, however notorious, not the issue.

In his late years Palmer's unreadiness on first nights was scandalous.

"We have extremists, and in some regions there is a certain unreadiness for democracy.

The Clinton administration, to avoid charges of military unreadiness, made sure that today, every division is combat-ready.

Many stories are told of his quaint absent-mindedness and unreadiness in conversation.

As she started to throw back the thermal covering, every muscle in her body announced its unreadiness for such activity.

Our unreadiness to respond practically to disasters is as obvious now as it was then.

Another is what Judge Kaye terms a growing "culture of unreadiness" among attorneys who appear in court.

Also, Thorndike argues that a low or negative status in respect to readiness is called unreadiness.

His murder, he continued, "has become yet one more horrible symbol of the unreadiness of the society for such openness."

(d) Called a press conference to announce an unreadiness to announce anything.

"However, our unreadiness is part of what I call the gen- eral emergency.

"You see then in this woman," said Marlenus, "though she is beautiful, an unreadiness."

"Despite the sense of unreadiness, the opportunity to create the Beltline will slip away if we don't act now."

That memory outweighed any amount of unreadiness.

The United States' unreadiness to engage stopped developing countries from making any move or showing any flexibility of their own.

One phenomenon that continues to hold steady is that young people show much higher levels of complete unreadiness than the late middle aged and elderly.

If, notwithstanding this warning, any instance of the practice should occur, it will be deemed that the deceased lord was to blame for unreadiness.

Behavior and learning are influenced by the readiness or unreadiness of responses, as well as by their strength.

Claris's state of unreadiness manifests itself when it comes to the selection of features.

The public waked up to the sufficiently obvious fact that the Government was in its usual state--perennial unreadiness for war.

Aircraft cannibalization - a measure of unreadiness - is the lowest since 1978, both in the Navy and the Air Force.

"I suggest that I am proof of His unreadiness to do so," Bartholomew replies.