That house cried for a coat of paint.

Millions of others, however, are ill prepared for the new age.

We aren't prepared.

With research by Masae Okabayashi.

And these are six minutes they really prepared for the TED audience.

We have to be prepared.

We're very well prepared.

I asked Tom how much he thought it would cost to get someone to paint our house.

We're not prepared for that.

I think Tom and Mary are prepared.

The government argues that this land had been specifically set aside for asylum seekers.

Are you well prepared for today's exam?

Tom and Mary are very well prepared.

This is a picture of what my car looked like before I had it painted.

Are Russian bureaucrats in charge of policing the internet technologically savvy enough to do their job?

Tom didn't need to paint the fence. They tore it down a week after he painted it.

Policymakers are ill prepared to cope with a steady stream of growth scares.

Liberal democracy is, after all, well prepared to fight against its internal enemies through the rule of law. Laws against incitement to violence must be enforced, conspiracies prosecuted, traitors exposed.

Liberal democracy is, after all, well prepared to fight against its internal enemies through the rule of law.

Governments have a very poor track record when it comes to answering this question.

The necessary changes to the list of goods eligible for temporary duty free entry were prepared by the ministry under instructions from the government of the Russian Federation.

Yet many young people are ill prepared for secondary school, and places are scarce.

Reports of new amendments being drafted in order to rescind these guarantees would be extremely disturbing if confirmed.

You do not have to buy new furniture. With a little polishing and painting, old furniture can get a new life.

Banks are often less prepared to finance a risky, but possibly bright idea.

Many financial institutions, for example, are inadequately prepared to confront the new players entering their markets.

I was with somebody else night ... and I saw Paul at the other side of the room.

They are ill equipped to deal with the problem, so their societies have the drug problem they deserve.

People need to be ready, whether it's bringing bail money with them, or letting relatives know they are traveling through the state.

The Ministry of Transportation has also prepared draft decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation regarding confirmation of the water boundaries of the seaports of Crimea.

Bills have been drafted that amount to amendments to the Foreign Trade and Payments Act and related regulations.

So ill equipped are we all, to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims.

Similar pro employment Green New Deal packages have been lined up in China, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

Children need to be equipped to deal with violence and speak up against violence and sexual abuse, Dora Giusti, UNICEF India ENDviolence UNICEF India ( UNICEFIndia) August 22, 2013

Nevertheless, we have so far managed it without any problems, CSA and British Airways were well prepared for us, so much so that, on occasion, I was quite surprised.

This time, the non Pashtun communities are better armed and prepared to defend their interests after the US withdrawal.

However, this will remain a futile mission until the armed forces are professionalized and depoliticized through reorientation to external defense, border security, and special operations.

Governments should promote high quality education, to ensure that young people are prepared to face global competition.

That is to say, the Greek ministers were not prepared and were poorly informed, and, as a result, they conducted negotiations ineffectively and concluded a bad agreement.

Finally, you take several others along for the journey, without informing them about how well (or poorly) equipped you are.

If the fallout from those incidents is a reliable guide, however, nuclear power s advocates will eventually be back.

Development banks like the French Development Agency (AFD), where I am CEO, are well placed to contribute.

Neither Haiti nor the world was properly equipped for this, and tens of thousands will die needlessly.

If we are ill prepared, global warming will cause more deaths and devastation, especially in poor countries and fragile societies.

Even those countries that were better prepared were made painfully aware of the after effects of crisis export markets collapsed, commodity prices fell, and credit markets seized up.