Synonym: assured, balanced, collected, composed, confident. Similar words: poise, porpoise, poison, poisoning, poisonous, noise, food poisoning, tortoise. Meaning: ['pɔɪzd] adj. 1. marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action 2. in full control of your faculties.
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91) Observers saw Ochs poised to become the folkie / activist pillar mantle that Dylan had abandoned for rock and less political songs.
92) The country is poised to begin talks with officials at the International Monetary Fund next week on a $ 3 billion loan.
93) Hundreds of police were poised to intervene if things got out of hand, but they did not.
94) Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance, teeth bared, knife poised over his head.
95) Die Gruenen seem poised to step into the third party gap.
96) He could feel Duvall's grip on his throat relaxing, could see Duvall's poised hand lowering.
97) With two serves in hand Rafter was poised to take a 6-1 lead.
98) One of them is sitting, poised like a crab about to scuttle,[http://sentencedict.com/poised.html] the fingers steadying a fresh Government-issue folder.
99) Newport looked poised to run away with it, but Bridgend refused to cave in.
100) He stared with wonder at the dozen flaky homemade biscuits poised on the bed of fresh crabmeat and fragrant sauce.
101) This girl looked as if she was on her first assignment, as she sat with pencil poised over her shorthand notebook.
102) People who can present themselves well appear more clever, poised and promotable.
103) For rural Britain faces the massed ranks of developers, poised for action with diggers and cranes.
104) The dinos poised in the skeletal power of hydraulic hoses, chained gears, and cabled levers.
105) Government is poised to forecast a huge increase in the extraction of aggregates-one third of which go to roads.
106) That leaves Bush, in Texas, poised to reach national prominence as a Republican advocating a cooler approach to the issue.
107) Surkov had repeated for my benefit his account of the submarine commander, poised to unleash destruction on London.
108) Their craggy Nab, poised above the Tees estuary, was as proud a landmark as neighbouring Roseberry Topping.
109) He poised the bottle over an empty fourth cup and raised his eyebrows at Consolo.
110) Hargrove is poised to become the city's first black mayor.
111) Bryant has a reputation as an unusually poised, thoughtful teenager, and Twardzik believes that those qualities would ripen in college.
112) Our region is poised for further growth once the election is out of the way.
113) But now the Clown Prince is poised for a sensational return.
114) Brushing aside looping clematis, she poised to run but her head smacked full-tilt on a wall of spiderglass.
115) They are held together, poised upright like a pencil standing on its point, by the recursive dynamics of coevolution.
116) From outside bets to reach the play-offs, Leicester are now poised to break into the top two.
117) With its preeminent worldwide Web-hosting position, Verio is strategically poised to capitalize on the global electronic commerce explosion.
118) At least, not until the three months had passed and the knife was poised over his own neck.
119) She was poised and full of grace, and he was rooting for her.
120) Miss Hazelwood stepped up from behind her desk, slender and poised and gripping the tawse.
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