My mum is about to take a bath.

Candide and Cacambo eventually reach Suriname, where they split up Cacambo travels to Buenos Aires to retrieve Lady Cunégonde, while Candide prepares to travel to Europe to await the two.

Shouldn't you be getting ready for school?

Shouldn't you be getting ready for work?

French troops are now set to return home.

Europe is now poised for similar reconciliations elsewhere.

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.

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

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.

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

Now, 25 years and 500 billion later, roughly 100,000 NATO troops, mainly American, are about to leave Afghanistan, with the Taliban still controlling much of it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

PRAGUE As I listened to what some Europeans were saying as my country prepared to take over the presidency of the European Union, I heard dim echoes of Neville Chamberlain s infamous description of Czechoslovakia as a faraway country of which we know little.

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.

JOHANNESBURG By hosting the World Cup this month, South Africa is set to defy Africa s image as too poor and trouble ridden to stage one of the world s great spectacles.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

European countries should be prepared for US calls to do more to meet the increasing security challenge in Afghanistan.

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.

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

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.

I would like to stress that Palestinian terrorism persists at the same moment that Israel is preparing its disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

On the morning of 26 December, fishing communities along Somalia's vast coastline the longest in Africa were preparing for the beginning of their day.