long-prepared

In coming days, he writes, we shall see the degrading spectacle of the EU's political class wheeling out their long-prepared formula for ignoring the Irish verdict, and imposing their constitution-by-any-other-name regardless.

Archive 2008-06-01 Peter Troy 2008

In coming days, he writes, we shall see the degrading spectacle of the EU's political class wheeling out their long-prepared formula for ignoring the Irish verdict, and imposing their constitution-by-any-other-name regardless.

The EU in the Media Spotlight Peter Troy 2008

They will be discredited by way of personal attacks that are likely in preparation now, and will look justified in the long-prepared context.

Fixing the Facts to the Policy « Climate Audit 2007

So these events, these shocking seeds of political disillusionment, were planted in soil long-prepared to receive them.

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generalization 2007

In these unfavourable conditions, without any turning movement, he assaulted the long-prepared, deeply-entrenched Boer position before Pieters.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

In these unfavourable conditions, without any turning movement, he assaulted the long-prepared, deeply-entrenched Boer position before Pieters.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

In these unfavourable conditions, without any turning movement, he assaulted the long-prepared, deeply-entrenched Boer position before Pieters.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Rwanda was no frantic explosion of bloodlust, but a long-prepared plan to destroy an entire people.

African Gothic Hitchens, Christopher 1994

His long-prepared plan to create, with the opening of last year's UN session, maximum pressure on Israel by threats of war did not achieve any results, and the threat itself has proven unfounded, although Sadat staked his political prestige on the success of this move.

The Price Israel Is Paying Arieli, Yehoshua 1972

By the end of the month Army Group Centre had been forced out of its long-prepared defences and was streaming back across White Russia, abandoning guns, vehicles, dumps of material, wounded, in its haste to reach the old defences of the Polish border.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965