However, most call centers are ill-prepared to pick up the ball from a failed mobile transaction.
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Gradually, however, the parents realized that the kids were ill-prepared to deal with life outside the spa.
But the town's threadbare garrisons suggest the army and gendarmerie would be ill-prepared to take the offensive.
This explains why new mothers feel ill-prepared: They can't get advice from their mothers, aunts, grandmothers and neighbors.
Most are ill-prepared to deal with the operational, legal, financial, regulatory, and public relations ramifications of such incidents.
Although Asian consumers are ill-prepared for e-commerce, its businesses stand to gain far more than their western counterparts.
Serb forces pounded the city every day from higher ground positions, trapping Sarajevo's ill-prepared residents in the valley below.
Unfortunately, the Clinton-Gore Administration has left the Nation ill-prepared to exercise space power.
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The firm he left behind was ill-prepared for a business that got reshaped by billion-dollar behemoths and cutthroat pricing.
In education, some fear that ill-prepared non-white university students will be unable to keep up, and simply drop out.
Indeed, she was lucky: some who returned to the east later have been detained in ill-prepared schools and temples.
One union source said that in his in-person interview with union leaders, the governor appeared "ill-prepared" to discuss the critical issue.
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And Maccarinelli's promoter Warren suggested that the Welsh cruiserweight was ill-prepared for his WBO interim title shot in Manchester on Saturday.
Mr Kan again faced criticism in parliament on Monday - with one opposition lawmaker suggesting he had been ill-prepared from the outset.
Many Americans maintain minuscule savings and are ill-prepared for retirement.
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Extending quotas to all 59 federal universities, and half of all places, will mean admitting many more ill-prepared students, who may struggle.
One of the main worries is that, if a computer-related problem occurs in one ill-prepared company or country, it will infect others.
Another important takeaway is that older Americans are extremely ill-prepared for retirement.
But Justice Kenneth Hayne, the High Court judge who heard the application from a refugee advocates group, seems to think its lawyers were ill-prepared.
Southwest was ill-prepared in the early part of the last decade, when jetBlue, AirTran and Frontier began making successful runs at its discount routes.
The league was not forced into hiring these ill-prepared understudies, but created this fiasco by locking out its seasoned officials in a negotiating tactic.
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He laboured to a points win over Jesse Brinkley in March, but looked ill-prepared for his bout with Froch, and decided enough was enough.
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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Most democrats support his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay, but realise that agreeing to fund an ill-prepared process would provide fodder for the Republican opposition.
Officials said it was still early days but in the worst case scenario ill-prepared hospitals could be forced to close wards if finances were destabilised.
Yet the other path, of advancing unqualified students willy-nilly through the academic ranks, has left thousands of American pupils ill-prepared for life beyond the classroom.
Academically Adrift addresses whether college students learn to think critically and solve problems, while In the Basement laments how ill-prepared students flounder in literature classes.
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Nerdy technicians are ill-prepared to manage frustrated and even violent crowds.
Unfortunately, not everything in life is planned for, and members of Gen Y who are ill-prepared for bumps in the financial road may experience long-term consequences.
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The list of culprits for the woes afflicting banks includes bankers' pay, credit ratings, ill-prepared boards, sleepy supervisors, accounting regimes, flawed risk models and Alan Greenspan.
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