Instead,it will be based on a simple principle: whether a state is ready to do what works.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Jeff Peters and Andy Tucker were now ready to catch a few fish on the hook.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

On December eighteenth, ground controllers asked Borman and Lovell if they were ready to come home.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

This was it. What could be an impossible effort in the history of spaceflight was ready to lift off on its final chance for success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

He was ready to investigate. But a great storm damaged some equipment on his ships.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The lunar module was ready. Men were about to land on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Then he said: "No man on earth is more ready than I am to surrender anything which I have proposed and to accept in its place anything that is better.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Apollo was ready to land on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The image of a man on a boat, white mane tousled, smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for what storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon."

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Israel wants negotiations without preconditions and is ready to offer no more than a partial, temporary freeze on construction in the settlements.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

While most American students are on their summer vacations, many teachers are busy attending training programs and getting ready for the coming school year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"What we are ready for, is for a just peace: Two states living side by side, on a real basis and real conditions."

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

"We are ready for Copenhagen. We have agreed on a negotiating mandate, we have a clear endorsement on some of the Commission's proposals, notably on financing.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

But Boit wasn't ready to settle down on the family farm,and still isn't.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

"Once he has it, he intends to hold on to it until such time as the president and his national security team are ready to consider it."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"We're helping to get all the stuff ready to go on the floats.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The Iranian press reported earlier this week that Tehran was ready to accept the general framework of the U.N.draft deal, but was insisting on some "important changes."

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit say just as the plane was getting ready to land there was a loud pop, and then panic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Israel,on the other hand, is ready to resume peace talks without preconditions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12