There is a Met Office yellow warning - meaning be prepared - for snow in Carmarthenshire, Bridgend, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
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An amber warning - which means to be prepared - is in place for eastern counties.
But the town's threadbare garrisons suggest the army and gendarmerie would be ill-prepared to take the offensive.
Of course, these patterns are rarely exactly the same, but through these examples, you should be well-prepared for most future scenarios.
Mr. Taleb presents a range of answers -- be prepared for various outcomes, he says, and don't rush for buses -- but it's clear that he remains slightly vexed by the world he describes so vividly.
If America could be so ill-prepared for a hurricane hitting what has long been called the Hurricane Coast, what else might we be missing?
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Next time we will be more prepared -- with Federal funding, I could light up the whole of Southern Mississippi within 24 hours using a high-speed Internet connection.
We have to recognise that the whole world would be involved - we have to be prepared to have enough vaccine to deal with these on a worldwide basis.
"And while we are always resource hungry because we want Eden to be the best it can possibly be - we are prepared to take the tough business decisions, " says Ms Coley.
Mr Cheney's speech was the latest in a series by top administration officials promoting what is emerging as a new doctrine of the Bush administration - that the US must be prepared to take pre-emptive action against new security threats.
Mr ap Mihangel applied for the sentence to be adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.
Mr. Nixon said the fund is critical not just for the state to gain a triple-A bond rating, but to also be prepared for higher health-care costs in coming years and to maintain consistent program funding levels.
Bentley's chief executive Franz-Josef Paefgen, over lunch with journalists in London recently, insisted that "Bentley's engines will be 40% more efficient in four years, and all the cars will be prepared for flex-fuel".
And since Mr Chope seems to have taken a dislike to some parts of the Humber Bridge Bill, which is due to have its second reading in this slot, its promoters had better watch out - and be prepared to answer his concerns.
So the more you can do to be prepared now -- making a plan, make a supply kit, know your evacuation route, follow instructions of your local officials -- the quicker we can focus our resources after the storm on those who need help the most.
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However, these targets - all be they only long term markers - show that Ministers are prepared to provide criteria by which they can be judged in their attempts.
It remains to be seen whether famously free-market Hong Kong will be prepared to adopt such charges.
Usually the process involves using both a GPS and digital camera and linking the data later, but there are actually a couple of cameras on the market with built-in GPS. In any case, once your in-laws get wind of this be prepared for a new era of vacation-picture slideshows, with a step-by-step (literally) recounting of the trip.
On the other hand, if you are buying a fund for purely short-term trading, be prepared to sell it quickly and do not treat it as a long-term position.
To be sure, many airlines were well-prepared for Sandy, whose impact was widely predicted to be devastating.
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered his ministers to step up information-gathering and be prepared for emergencies.
The former Defence Secretary Liam Fox has been clear about this - he would be prepared to see Britain get out.
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Both are also entrenched in their media businesses, have little interest in would-be successors and are prepared to wage war to protect their empires.
We have made it clear at the outset that we would not -- we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership.
Once you've got a date, be prepared to demonstrate -- in 60 seconds or less -- how you can help the company save time and money.
"You can never be prepared for that - to tell 18 to 20 families that their loved one would not be returning to them that day or in the future, " he said.
Once they were studiously ignored, but now that they are known to be both well-off and prepared to pay whatever it takes to spot a rare bird they are wooed by cash-strapped ranchers and dilapidated Gulf coast towns.
Club president Jean-Claude Dassier has offered a compromise, saying he would be prepared to pave the way for the 30-year-old to leave for Turkey in 2011.
All in all, Japan is widely acknowledged to be one of the most earthquake-prepared nations.
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