My mum is about to take a bath.

Shouldn't you be getting ready for school?

Shouldn't you be getting ready for work?

French troops are now set to return home.

The military was set to reassert full legislative powers.

Photographs are also being circulated showing regime forces ready to storm the prison.

I saw the German police waiting to get on the train.

That is why China needs to prepare for this moment.

Yet, once again, the Bush administration is preparing to leap into the unknown.

Europe is now poised for similar reconciliations elsewhere.

What is going on? Are China and India bracing for war?

But it is China that is now poised to exploit much of these resources.

So the black swan of the climate crisis is already preparing to land.

By almost all recent estimates, China has little time to prepare.

The climate bomb is ticking, and there is a palpable sense of urgency among policymakers.

Colombia is currently in line to enter the OECD and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.

SÃO PAULO Brazil is poised to take its place among the world s petro powers.

BOGOTÁ Venezuela is poised to vote on a new president to replace the recently deceased Hugo Chávez.

In the coming years, Europe appears set to lurch from the frying pan of depression to the fire of high inflation.

Mr. Perez (Switzerland) noted that Jordan was preparing for its election to the Executive Committee of the UNHCR Programme.

MILAN China is poised to begin its transition from middle income to developed country status.

Africa needs to prepare for the opportunities and challenges to come by deliberately working for peace and security.

Algeria is about to witness crucial presidential elections. The country's future is at stake. Election day is penciled in for April 17.

LIG Nex1 is also preparing to manufacture F 15's new multi function display and flight control computer.

Unlike the United States, whose history as a melting pot has given Americans a truly multi ethnic character, native Europeans are becoming an endangered species.

The International Seabed Authority is actively preparing for the future exploitation of mineral resources in the international seabed area.

Yet no nuclear armed country currently appears to be preparing for a future without these terrifying devices.

Nor is it easy to create consensus in Israel, especially as its political parties prepare for elections next year.

MUNICH Germany s Constitutional Court is preparing what might become the most important decision in its history.

Furthermore, the Government is preparing to send medical and engineer units to assist in reconstruction and also in demining efforts.

There have been signs of possible tensions as political parties begin to prepare for the national elections to be held in 2007.

Mr. D'ALIA (Italy) said that his Government was in the process of preparing to withdraw some of its reservations to the Covenant, but had not yet done so.

Some countries have already experimented with such programs, and India is preparing to begin providing cash transfers to its 300 million poor citizens.

Indeed, emerging market economies are bracing for a serious bout of it together with the dire political consequences that it will bring.

In East Asia, North Korea has gone nuclear and is set to add a whole new class of uranium bombs to its arsenal.

Today, as Clinton prepares to leave office, there is widespread speculation that she will seek to succeed President Barack Obama in 2016.

By then, the city of Pagan, once home to 200,000 people, had been reduced to a small town, never to regain its preeminence.

It is against that background that Israel is preparing to withdraw from settlements in the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank sometime this summer.

As the United States prepares to withdraw its troops from the country, China must deal with an uncertain post war scenario.

The strategy is simple and ruthless. The world s largest dictatorship is preparing to crush and occupy the first Chinese democracy in history Taiwan.

As Eid Al Fitr (the end of Ramadan) approaches, women in Egypt are bracing themselves for even more sexual harassment than what has already become a disturbing norm.

That report formed the basis for discussions by Member States as they prepared for the five year review of the Millennium Declaration and for this sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

In societies that have been preparing themselves by opening their markets and embracing universal education, the disruptions of this revolution can probably be absorbed and handled.

Governments are once again on the Road to Rio for a summit in June 2012 aptly referred to as Rio 20.

Hariri s assassination makes that far more difficult, and Syria must prepare for a strong backlash from the US and France.