A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

Start to prepare the necessary legislation so that if I am obliged to go to Congress the bills will be ready for immediate consideration ''.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.

Let us prepare for peace, instead of for a war which would mean the end of civilization.

The trustees will prepare an annual budget for the college and submit it to the board of school estimate.

that is how the Jews prepare a body for burial.

When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.

It was the doctor, dressed and ready for the expedition to the market, and Alex was obliged to prepare himself in haste.

I lived to see an envelope of hers in the morning mail and to lock myself in my room in the afternoon to reread her letter for the tenth time and finally prepare an answer.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

To assist the States, therefore, in rehabilitating handicapped individuals, `` so that they may prepare for and engage in remunerative employment to the extent of their capabilities '', the 83rd Congress enacted the Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments of 1954 ( P. L. 565 ).

One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.

If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.

They should know simple exercises that could prepare less fortunate children for the sports we will demand be taught.

These are beginnings, but correctly learned they prepare for satisfying and exciting stunts that can be performed by a strong, flexible body ( we are not talking of eccentric extremes ).

By holding out prospects for external capital assistance, the United States can provide strong incentives to prepare for the concerted economic drive necessary to achieve self-sustaining growth.

Editor Foss stated, `` Of their guilt there can be no doubt but they are entitled to sufficient time to prepare for trial, and a fair trial ''.

It was there, in the course of trying to prepare new men for the `` culture shock '' they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that he first began to develop a system of charting the `` norms of human communication ''.

Cereal grains have been used for centuries to prepare fermented beverages.

She may well be incapacitated by it when she is confronted with present and future alternatives -- e.g., whether to prepare primarily for a career or for the role of a homemaker ; ;

" Many have argued that this study helped prepare him for the convention.

* Animania explores the cosplay cultural phenomenon in North America, following four cosplayers from various ethnicites as they prepare to compete at Anime North, Canada's largest anime convention.

One of the recommendations of the Convention is that a convention be used to prepare for future IGCs ; this has now indeed been incorporated into the treaty as a requirement for future treaty revisions, unless the European Parliament decides that it is not necessary ( e. g. for minor amendments ).

The convention chose a committee of thirty members to prepare a new constitution and declaration of rights.

In 1787, King was sent to the Federal constitutional convention at Philadelphia where he worked closely with Alexander Hamilton on the Committee of Style and Arrangement to prepare the final draft.

The students nominated for state office prepare speeches given at the regional convention.

At its 2008 provincial convention, the party overwhelmingly rejected a proposal by the Environment Caucus recommending a party task force be mandated to “ investigate a variety of options for political cooperation with the Alberta Liberals and / or Greens .” and “ to prepare a motion to be considered ” at the next Party Convention.

Beginning in 2010, a team is selected to prepare and compete at the state convention in activities ranging from Optics, Forensics, and Human Anatomy and Physiology to Chemistry Lab, Remote Sensing, and Ornithology.

It was founded in 1913 by the Second Baptist Church of Chicago to prepare students for church leadership, and it continues to represent a theologically conservative alternative within its association with the American Baptist Churches in the USA ( historically the Northern Baptist convention ).

States have enacted laws to prepare for the possibility of Congress specifying the convention method of ratification.

Organizations such as the Ocean Prediction Center, Honolulu National Weather Service forecast office, United Kingdom Met Office, and JMA prepare high seas forecasts for the world's oceans.

Also, Columbia was the female symbol of the U. S. After construction, the orbiter arrived at Kennedy Space Center on March 25, 1979, to prepare for its first launch.

Missionaries typically spend one to three months in a Missionary Training Center where they study the scriptures, learn new languages, and otherwise prepare themselves to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and understand the culture in which and the people among whom they will be living.

The decade of the 1990s was dedicated to expanding and modernizing the Whitin Community Center to prepare it for the 21st century.

The Central Susquehanna LPN Career Center, located in Sunbury, provides a one year full-time program to prepare the individual to enter a career in licensed practical nursing.

Starting in 1990, after German reunification, he worked as a freelance consultant for the formerly West German spaceflight agency German Aerospace Center ( DLR ), and from 1993 also for the European Space Agency ( ESA ) to prepare for the Euromir missions.

The Center for Civic Innovation's Social Entrepreneurship Initiative was established in 2001 on the belief that " in a healthy society, markets are complemented by charitable and philanthropic enterprises which both help those in need and help prepare citizens to realize their potential ".

Shortly after Camille formed, the National Hurricane Center advised residents on the Isle of Pines and in western Cuba to prepare for gale force winds, heavy rains, and rising tides.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio was the first school in the United States to use this technique to prepare gross organ specimens for use in teaching.

There were no major setbacks during MRO's construction, and the spacecraft was moved to John F. Kennedy Space Center on May 1, 2005 to prepare it for launch.

Zelikow later helped found a research project to prepare and publish annotated transcripts of presidential recordings made secretly during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations ( see WhiteHouseTapes. org ) and another project to strengthen oral history work on more recent administrations, with both these projects based at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

The Center for Gerontology and Geriatrics collaborates with the academic community, government, civic, professional and business groups, and funders, in its mission to help prepare for an aging society on the regional, state, national, and global levels.

It also offers certificate programs for future and current teachers and opportunities for its students in the Early Childhood Education Center ( ECEC ) to prepare students with real-world experience.

The primary purpose of the Maryknoll Mission Center is to prepare Catholic missionary personnel for contemporary mission in Latin America other parts of the world.

The Center advocates for improved corporate practices, educates investors through research and outreach, and better prepare MBA students for today's global business arena.

The College of Public Policy's Center for Policy Studies is in the top five certifying institutions in the U. S. for American Humanics, a program that brings together universities, nonprofit organizations and community partners to prepare professionals to lead nonprofit organizations.

This was to prepare the way, in 1997, for New York-based Lord & Taylor, another division of May Department Stores, to open in the former Wanamaker's flagship in Center City Philadelphia.

Since the Software Freedom Law Center would not do actions pro-bono, if made in Hawaii, the PearPC team began collecting donations to prepare for a lawsuit against Maui X-Stream and CherryOS.

The ESLC includes the SIUE East St. Louis Charter High School to prepare students for career and college programs ; a Head Start Program providing services to children up to age 5, pregnant women, and families ; a Latchkey Program to provide local families with after-school care for children ages 6 to 12 ; and the SIUE East St. Louis Center for the Performing Arts Program, established in 1967 and formerly known as the Katherine Dunham Center for the Performing Arts to provide cultural and performing arts classes and workshops.

The McGovern Center seeks to prepare Dakota Wesleyan's best students for future leadership and careers in public service through classes, seminars, research, and internships.

Hawk, whose true name is revealed to be Aleph, is sent on missions from the Center to eradicate demons and prepare the world for the Thousand Year Kingdom.

Fourteen hours prior to Edith making landfall in Central America, the National Hurricane Center warned citizens about the extreme danger of the approaching hurricane, and asked them to prepare for hurricane conditions.