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Vestas is "making a billion- dollar bet" that the U. S. is now poised to become a world leader in wind energy, he said.

A sea lion is poised to catch a piece of fish thrown by his keeper at the zoo in the German city of Stuttgart.

Two or three weeks ago, we might have crumbled under the pressure. We stayed poised. This team has really progressed in the right direction.

Having cut costs aggressively, their operations are poised to take full advantage of any further pick-up in trade.

With both championships so delicately poised, how much is the team under pressure?

Brooks stands on a chair, poised at the bars of a window, cradling Jake in his hands.

Yet Palin, with her fundraising prowess, devoted adherents and superstardom, is poised to enter the 2012 contest at a time of her choosing.

She was once kidnapped in her homeland and says the experience taught her to remain poised under pressure.

Some of the men above were tragically called Uncle Toms, but now one of them is poised to be the most powerful man in the world.

And so far it seems to be working: America's unions are poised for an internal debate more wide-ranging than any they have had in decades.

Hagia Sophia is the great architectural landmark at the heart of Istanbul, with its four minarets poised like moon-bound rockets.

You seem to be poised to see a rise in status very soon - all that hard work you've been doing is about to add up to something big.

Mount Taishan collapse is constant in the front but color, the dispute rises suddenly but poised place it, seem to be very important.

Moroes held for a moment, his foot poised on the next step, "I suppose I did, " he said at last.

The next day, poised for his second flying lesson, Felix again begged not to be thrown out of the window.

With investors in Asia poised to start selling again in just a few hours, the ministers knew they needed to come up with a plan -- and fast.

Is China's car industry at a turning point, poised to launch out on the great global venture Beijing has always dreamt of?

When the air strikes began, government forces were poised to enter Benghazi. A bloodbath appeared to be inevitable.

"She's always been very friendly to us, but we just wanted to be ourselves. And she's beautiful and poised all the time. "

In the next couple of years we're poised to see a real change in the user interface for computers.

There was no haste or restlessness in his manner but a poised friendliness.

one questioner, a young man with an earnest manner, seemed poised to spring as he took the mike.

EBT Mobile China, the retailer of mobile phones and services, appears poised to be the first company to leave Aim and join Nasdaq in the US.

The data would seem to be in: China is poised to become the world's economic leader within the next few decades.

A few paces away, a monstrous, meter-high sea spider was staring at me with beady eyes, poised to spring at me.

Like the kind of woman, fulfill their duties, and the officials of the poised the old couple, they say.

Photo of the Day: Best of March 2008 Poised to plunge belly-first into the ocean, a colony of gentoo penguins lines up for a dip.

It appeared to be wondering what to do next as it stayed poised in the middle of the road.

Wales and Ireland are poised, ready to rise up and exploit the exposed English provinces.

That said, you will likely be met with a well mixed enemy barrage poised and ready to strike.

Rather than withdraw from Gaza, where the fighting has so far been inconclusive, Israel is now poised to send in units of reservists .

Most auction theorists assume a fixed number of bidders, all poised and ready to bid.

Armoured units stayed on the Gaza border, poised to go back in, the army said, if Hamas resumed its firing of rockets across the border.

In fact, huge Russian reinforcements poured in, and within a few days were poised to take Tbilisi.

So where's his poised, attractive mother, known as one of the great Chinese cooks in Philadelphia?

Technology is among the sectors that analysts see poised to be the biggest beneficiaries of an economic revival.

Picture yourself completing a deadline or meeting your date with a smile and a poised personality, and it's bound to happen.

With a puppet prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, from his Pakistan People's Party, Mr Zardari is poised to lord it over Pakistan.

You see, after years of talking about it, we're finally poised to take control of our energy future.

Cupid is often printed on the card, who is winged infant without wearing anything, poised to shoot his arrow into a heart.

In the great tropical harbor of Manila Bay, two groups of men warily approach each other, their hands poised above their weapons.

With a deadline of the end of this month, America has lodged an objection and Britain looks poised to follow (see article).

Mr. Buffett's move appears to be a bet that the freight industry is poised for recovery, though it hasn't shown much of a rebound yet.

On the eve of April's G20 summit in London, diplomats from the European Union and South Korea were poised for a breakthrough.

If, say, an office rival seems poised to trash one of your absent allies, I suggest you make a "preemptive positive evaluation. "

The company began selling the iPad in nine countries last month and is poised to launch it in nine more countries in July.

But despite these advances, neither side appears poised to break out of the months-long military stalemate in western Libya.

Hoteliers found themselves with a multitude of empty rooms even as a gaggle of unnecessary new hotels was poised to open.

In short, though Mr Perry may have looked a touch less poised than Mr Romney, the debate did not render a decisive verdict.

Hell itself is poised to spill forth into your world like a tidal wave of blood and nightmares. You and all your kind. . . are doomed ". "

Russian forces, he said, were also poised just over the border at Larsi, a checkpoint, where they could open a third line of ground attack.

His hand was poised halfway to his mouth with an empty pipe.

Photography, however, is poised on a fine borderline between documentary and art.

Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?

She was a poised and attractive young woman, with a personal sensitivity more mature than her father's.

You won't see any of these changes coming this month, but you will need to be poised to make quick decisions when opportunity knocks.

But get right to the point, and you'll look poised, authoritative, and intelligent.

None of this is to say that Britain is poised for a swift exit.

Now, a new use for an old particle accelerator is poised to reveal more of his thoughts.

In a town like Toledo where you've still got a lot of skilled workers, they are poised to be able to take off on that.

As you rise to speak, try to appear calm, poised, and confident, despite the butterflies in your stomach.

Arms controllers fear that laser enrichment is now poised for that kind of activity.

With sustainability and green poised to be on people's minds for the next decade, hand-made is the new black.

The Ares I-X rocket is poised to launch on a suborbital test flight on Oct. 27 and rolled out to its launching pad earlier this week.

If it's Tuesday, it must be another big win for John Kerry, who's poised to cruise to victory in Wisconsin tonight.

But I feel confident with what I have learned about the material poised to appear on his first posthumous album, Michael.

an ES cell just as it's poised to produce mature cell types, including neurons, muscle and bone.

But the weapon remained poised in mid-air, for Martin found himself back in the ironing room in the midst of a snow-storm.

Judges were poised as if in an epic battle with fate.

A project in Mississippi is poised to break ground, though the Sierra Club is still fighting in court to revoke the plant's permits.

By this time he had fully developed his poised method of composition and the graceful, smiling faces that are a feature of his work.

Those poised to fill the expected political vacuum include figures across the country, both known and unknown, with a mix of backgrounds.

Overall, Asia Pacific is poised for substantial growth over the next five years, while US growth is expected to stagnate.

and the caretaker regimes are poised to take over the reins of power from the dark.

The outfit that changed the kind of television people watch is poised to determine how they watch it.

Despite the challenges , there's a sense the Chinese market is finally poised to live up to its promise .

It is a stretch to say that China is poised to replace an equity-led growth model with a credit-led model.

The official said China was also poised to announce some further "incremental steps" in the direction of financial sector liberalisation.

as one of us points out the snout of a pigon the horizon, and higher up a gaping alligator poised to eat a smaller cloud.

And as the U. S. continues its migration from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge-based one, women are poised to snag more jobs.

His shoes were poised beside his desk and his tuxedo jacket was draped over the back of his admiral's chair.

The eagle poised in mid-air ready to swoop on its prey.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is poised to leave the solar system and reach interstellar space. In fact, it may already have.

The movie seems poised to earn at least $1 billion (it has already earned $325 million at the global box office).

But none of this means that Chinese bank shares are poised for a sustained rally.

And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

One source of stability may be that Mr Putin is now poised to play a strong role in a Medvedev administration.

With the current Lakers squad poised for a shakeup and a lockout looming in the NBA, Jackson chose a good time to move on.

For the choices you make will determine how you deal with the onslaught of changes imminently poised on the steps of your world.

Massachusetts, Bedbug, 1998 "In nightmarish proportions, a common bedbug appears poised for a blood meal, compliments of a human host. "

Annual production outside China is around 7, 000 tons but poised to rise to at least 50, 000 tons a year within three years.

She raised her net so that the mouth was just under the koala and stood poised, waiting to see which way the koala would jump.

Dong Jing has been a magazine fashion model in her spare time for several years. She is poised and confident in front of the camera.

The economy is now poised to surge past Japan this year as the world's second-largest economy after the U. S.

This band, once only known to a few, is now finally poised to take the world by storm.

Our Earth allies, under the supervision of your Ascended Masters, are poised to transform your world with a surge of 'divine intention.

NASA is now poised to install newer versions of this software on the same probe and on the International Space Station.

The manufacturing sector, like the rest of the economy, seems poised to end a long slump.

She was a rough diamond before she went abroad to work, now she's a sophisticated, poised woman.

True Love rests in its natural unalloyed state, balanced and poised in its own energy, unaffected by the vagaries of human condition.

Even so, a field that was just a curiosity in 1993 is now poised to change the world--all because we invested in basic research.

The longer he remains bedridden, the greater the likelihood of a power vacuum, say analysts, and Ms Kim may be poised to fill any void.

Once you begin to look around, poised systems can be found throughout the universe, even outside of biology.

As for what's to come, current weather patterns are poised to linger for a while longer.

He was, in fact, poised to surpass his father and to come closer to living up to the much-esteemed Van Gogh name.

With this partnership, Accoona is poised to be the premiere Internet Search Site for the fastest growing economy of the 21st Century.

'They've been cutting costs for nine years, ' he says. 'That sector looks really well-poised for coming out of the recession. '

Humanity is in peril! The tides of darkness have come again, and the whole world is poised upon the brink of war!

The company is poised to capitalize on a growing global shift from high-cost credit cards to debit cards.

There are reports that the company is poised to make several thousand of its staff redundant.

Half of the world's top 30 airlines by market capitalisation are poised to make at least a double-digit return on equity this year.

Shafaq is poised to finish at the top of his class which should guarantee him the job he most wants a teaching post at Kabul University.

Truly poised, straight as a shuttle, he loathes evil actions. Pondering what is on-pitch and off: The enlightened call him a sage.

There would be tremendous evolutionary advantage in biology for a complex system that was auto- poised .

It will not get better, thus can be considered to be poised to get worse, yes.

His company is poised to be at the forefront of this movement, raising a new $70 million investment led by Goldman Sachs Group.

Despite the media strong surrounding her mental health, she was politely poised, receiving a standing ovation from the audience.

President Barack Obama appears poised to make an interesting substitution at the U. S. Embassy in Beijing.

And I believe that we are poised to make steady progress on some of the most important issues of our times.

One woman, after four years of study and employment, is poised to go home.

BARACK OBAMA is poised to win at least one election by a landslide .

The company is poised to win more orders as governments and business spend money on pollution control.

Reports that the militants to "undercover" latent form within the military in Afghanistan, poised to strike, the events have increased.

3D thus looks as though it could be poised for a dramatic future.

And bioplastics made from sugar cane are poised to move from the laboratory to the corner store, with the launch of soft-drink bottles.

They are held together, poised upright like a pencil standing on its point, by the recursive dynamics of coevolution.

n. The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop.

If Chinese auto makers are truly poised to snap up struggling Western brands, the mooted maiden deal isn't much of a start.

The talks suggest that the number of official Chinese entities looking to make investments in foreign financial firms is poised to grow.

The new parliament includes many Thaksin allies, indicating the exiled leader could be poised for a comeback.

The French secret service was also poised to undertake, if necessary, the liquidation of the dictators' most formidable rivals.

Poised at the crossroad of her life, she is thrilled to be assigned to investigate the kidnapping of John's son.

The church lures visitors by staging mock Western-style weddings, complete with a robed actor-preacher poised before a neon cross.

The big allocation comes as the Chinese fund stands poised to make a wave of investments directly into hedge funds around the world.

And if not Mubarak, the next leader may be poised to start lining his pockets the same way Mubarak did.

Barry district, merchants gathered Jun-yu, is poised to the hotel industry, business, leisure and entertainment paradise.

Now, with the Republicans about to take control of the House, Issa is poised to become the chairman of the Oversight Committee.

We believe that we are poised to capitalize on this significant technological breakthrough to increase stockholder value.

The latest report leaves China poised to pass Japan as the world's second-largest economy, behind the United States.

The Democrats are poised to turn small majorities in both chambers into dominant ones, perhaps realigning American politics for many years.

But the parties poised to run the U. K. going forward are far apart on many pivotal issues.

We have dramatically improved human health -- yet now seem poised to cook it under a thick blanket of our own carbon emissions.

Combine Breweries are poised to take over the British Beer Company.

Cloud computing is poised to be a significant player in the tech industry now and in the foreseeable future.

The Indian Army is poised to adopt the ancient practice after a trial showed that it makes for a deadlier fighting force.

EGYPT, Jordan and Bahrain (see article), three of the West's closest Arab allies, are all poised to hold general elections.

The army is poised to extend its campaign into South Waziristan, the main base of Baitullah Mehsud, the chieftain of the Pakistani Taliban.

Hampered in their global aspirations by a lack of managerial talent, Chinese companies seem poised to recruit worldwide to fill the void.

The ice, poised between freezing and melting, is an especially sensitive indicator of the planet's temperature.

It's hard not to wonder if this is in fact the right tone for doing business with an economy poised to top the U. S. by 2025.

Meanwhile, Japan's economy is still poised precariously between recovery and renewed slump.

The forum on my website has been animatedly discussing the burning topic: "Are Austrian reds poised for a popularity explosion? "

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest unfolded in dramatic fashion as he was poised to fly to Europe.

After 132 years it is poised, like an old photo, to fade away.

Steel company valuations are poised for a fall as increased Chinese output is cutting its reliance on imported supplies.

In most small countries, word that both of its two flagship car brands were poised to get new Chinese owners would probably cause an outcry.

Humanity is in peril, the tides of darkness have come again and the whole world is poised on the brink of war.

If the region's leaders rise to the challenge, we stand poised to see the 2010s become the decade of Latin America.

The Observer revealed this week that the US administration was poised to announce a specific figure for cuts ahead of the Copenhagen talks.

The Middle East airlines are also poised to play an accelerated role over the next couple of years.

he two, as the court's youngest members, are poised to take ever more commanding roles in the years ahead.

Today, just two years after a sweeping Democratic victory, the tea-party movement is poised to redraw the landscape again.

Now, as tourists hurtle into space and almost every failed state seems poised to go ballistic, rocket science seems less sophisticated.

All men are unremittingly bloodthirsty here, poised at a peak of violence, the ''meridian'' from which their civilization will quickly fall.

Everyday, innumerable greedy of the vision move in this upper stream, she poised place it, because she be a red card miss here.

After shedding billions of dollars in debt, analysts say both General Motors and Chrysler are poised for a comeback.

Let's have a look at the outstanding performance of these two poised, self-assured female cadets.

In Liberia's presidential run-off Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the incumbent, was poised to be declared the winner.

If the worst really is over for the economy, and it is poised for recovery, investors should begin to focus on other parts of the market.

A growing segment of the party poised to take control of Congress has bought into denial of the basic truths of Barack Obama's life.

Bottom line: Quality US-listed China stocks are poised for a rally, as investors hunt for bargains in the battered sector.

Notwithstanding the Great Recession, many observers think the African economy is poised for great things.

The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping.

Yes, as the ways of metal and paper money begin to die out, the PayPal iPhone App users are poised to become the dominant species.

My heart was racing, adrenaline coursing through me, my whole being poised to rush to save whoever had let loose that terrible scream.

That Turkish voters are poised to return Mr Erdogan to power in the general election on June 12th is thus not surprising.

That driver standing on the edge of the diving board, and is poised to dive as soon as the coach sends out the signal.

These cells are known as memory T lymphocytes, and will be poised and ready should the pathogen appear again.

The Dutchman shifted awkwardly in his seat, his glass poised midway between the table and his open lips.

The Justice Department is poised to make a decision that could fundamentally alter Google's relationship with Washington.

Developments in techniques of pharmaceutical chemistry are poised to revolutionize the design of drugs beyond previous expectations.

Here where I was in a puny primitive boat poised precariously on the gently heaving breast of the ocean, life was elemental, primeval.

Finally, Bear Stearns agreed to a price of about $10 a share, which stockholders are poised to approve at a meeting Thursday.

Meanwhile, your governmental and economic systems are poised for a complete collapse.

You are all poised on the edge of a new beginning, of living life with greater emphasis on the more sublime in experience.

Some economists are worried that the United States is poised for another recession.

She elegant and poised since ancient times, the title of king of flowers, a flower known as wealth.

"The commercial industry is poised to explode, " says Randy Hoffman of Magellan Systems Corp. , which manufactures navigational systems.

Now, regulatory changes and new infrastructure are feeding hopes among jet manufacturers that the market is finally poised for takeoff.

Investors appreciate companies with sustainable step-and-repeat business models that are poised for exponential growth.

With the economy poised for recovery, some homeowners in negative equity may need to be allowed some breathing space.

He suggests that we're poised for a collapse in the dollar and in dollar-denominated assets, including Treasuries.

Michelle Bachelet is poised to become the first woman president of one of Latin America's most conservative countries.

Huawei is poised to quickly become a bigger rival for other handset brands as it refocuses.

The city is dotted with motionless construction cranes poised over the pits of abandoned projects.

I feel alpine skiing is both extending and natural and poised. It reflects people's improvisational ability even more.

China its treasury bursting with foreign reserves and its stock markets surging, is poised for stable growth.

Boyle, who honed her skills in a church choir, is poised to record an album with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra .

The United States is poised to bet its energy future on natural gas as a clean, plentiful fuel that can supplant coal and oil.

They were poised to move towards the coastal town of Janzur on the outskirts of the Libyan capital.

Summary: With the Muslim Brotherhood poised to gain influence in Egypt, Israel sees itself as almost completely encircled by hostile forces.

Motorola, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard are all developing magnetic RAM (MRAM) which seems poised to become the nonvolatile technology of choice.

It is now a Category 2 hurricane and is poised to enter the Gulf of Mexico, where important oil and gas fields are located.

Besides, the ethanol industry may be poised for a leap in productivity .

You are now poised dear ones on the closing end of the cycle and much has been done over many many years to prepare for this eventuality.

She was poised to challenge for the party leadership.

The city and state are poised to begin construction on a multi-billion-dollar road tunnel beneath the downtown waterfront.

The dollar looked poised to break resistance on the 50-day exponential and simple moving averages, if not on Wednesday then in coming days.

The euro is poised to finish the year much where it began: whipsawed by Europe's debt tinderbox while holding to potentially flimsy support.

Long accused of giving subtle, preferential treatment to domestic players, Japan is poised to discriminate openly in favour of foreigners.

He is instantly on his feet, poised to do her bidding.

Whatever her private views on politics and race, her public self was always poised and wholesome.

One of Wall Street's giant investment banks had gone bankrupt, and the remaining three were poised to follow.

"Kobe works well when he remains poised and trusts the triangle offense, " Jackson added.

Throughout the entire show Radcliffe was well poised, well spoken, in character and emotionally charged.

By simply staying the current course, emerging market exports are poised to transform Canadian trade patterns inside the current decade.

The mobile industry has reached an inflection point where connectivity is poised to affect traditional industries like never before.

And a new generation of wireless technologies is already poised to take over.

Bottom line: TV program and movie makers in China are poised to see business boom on growing demand from online video sites.

While China appears poised to overtake Japan as the world's second biggest economy, it might also beat Japan in the business of golf.

The experiments, reported in the journal Cell Death & Disease, have been on animals but the team are poised to start the first human trials.

Yet the public has soured on government activism, and seems poised to deal Democrats a severe defeat in the midterm elections.

As a CPSC accredited lab, STR is poised to assist our clients in complying with these new testing requirements.

These paintings typically show cats poised under chairs, sometimes collared or tethered, and often eating from bowls or feeding on scraps.

Ingenious Ideas -- Following the strategic orientation, we are poised for the most explosive, most ingenious methods of publicity campaigh.

Geordie Greig: You've never seen her exit a nightclub apart from in the most elegant and supremely poised way, even if it is 3 AM.

Earlier this year, the state-owned China Development Bank said it was poised to invest $10 billion in farming and mining activities.

It is a quite normal experience, but those who have no belief in life after death or the other realms remain poised above their body.

And I must say, we don't appear to be poised to fight this war.

Britain's Royal Mail is poised for a second round of nationwide strikes.

It comes after last week's announcement that China is poised to replace Japan as the world's second largest economy, behind the US.

But some nimble Chinese companies without the heft of the multinational giants are poised to ride the Olympic boom, too.

Liverpool playmaker target Arda Turan appears poised for a Galatasaray exit this summer, according to the player's agent.

Now that companies have gotten you used to the idea, they are poised to go all the way.

It seems that Microsoft is poised to make Silverlight the main web application framework by covering all major OSes and mobile platforms.

Sony is betting that e-book readers are poised to move from being an "early adopter" device into the mass consumer market.

If you take a new position in one of these industries, you are poised to do very well.

The Democrats are poised to increase their majorities on Capitol Hill and have a better-than-even chance of taking the White House.

The baby boom generation is poised for a large-scale "back to the city" movement, according to many news reports.

Plenty more, he says, is poised to follow, if and when Europe's policymakers manage to stabilise Europe's financial system.

There are two main reasons why, in the words of a new report by the financial-strategy team at Citigroup, "hostile M&A is poised to surge" .

they had no wings, but their very lightness poised them in the air.

With scientists rapidly discovering gene variants for these more common conditions, genetic testing in turn is poised to boom.

Chinese corporates are poised for overseas expansion in search of new markets and natural resources.

The U. S. is poised to eliminate trade barriers with Mexico and other neighboring countries.

Humiliation for Mr Brown in both encounters with hostile opinion will surely sharpen the daggers now poised at his back.

Virtual reality technology is poised to transform science, education, and entertainment.

The lighter poised over the mouth of his pipe.

We believe that their mobile business is on an upward trajectory and poised for explosive growth.

Heavy fighting continued in the city but the rebels were mostly in control and poised to take over the country.