Richard Neal

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

American Politician

Cole Sprouse

Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.

American Actor

Tony Snell

I'm not a very emotional guy. I just move on to the next play. I've always been that way. I don't like showing much. I just try to do my job and get out. It's important to stay poised until that clock says zero.

American Athlete

Maria Brink

Black Widow' is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light and darkness. She becomes this poised and powerful creature. That's the album.

American Musician

Helmut Jahn

I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.

German Architect

Shaun Livingston

That kind of always been apart of my personality, just mild-mannered, poised, trying to keep my poise. Doesn't always work out that way but I try when I'm on the court to stabilize things.

American Basketball Player

Terry Bradshaw

I would start with the most important thing a quarterback has to be: poised. If you panic in that pocket, you are no good. I don't care what else is there; you have to be poised.

Audrey Hepburn

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

British Actress

Leah LaBelle

Carrying yourself with poise and joy and peace within - that's sexy.

Canadian Musician

Frances Arnold

The biological world always seems poised to innovate.

American Scientist

Poise reflects confidence and self-assuredness in social settings.

Social Interactions

Though often physical, poise also relates to attitude and presence.

Not Just Physical

Using 'poise' can add a level of sophistication to your language.

Sophisticated Vocabulary

In physics, 'poise' strictly refers to a state of balance.

Scientific Context

Use 'poise' to describe mechanical systems or structures in balance.

Technical Usage

Poise conveys one's ability to stay composed during stressful times.

Emotional Control

Use 'poise' to compliment someone's calmness in difficult situations.

Under Pressure

As a verb, 'poise' involves careful placement or balancing of an object.

Physical Action

'Poise' suggests being in a steady position, ready for the next move.

Ready Position

When 'poised to', it indicates someone or something is about to act.

Imminence

Use 'poise' to show readiness mixed with a bit of tension or excitement.

Anticipation

 What started as a platform for hobbyists is poised to become a multibillion-dollar industry. Inspection, environmental monitoring, photography and film and these are some of the potential applications for commercial drones, and their enablers are the capabilities being developed at research facilities around the world.

Meet the dazzling flying...

 or the effortless poise of a prima ballerina. When used in every day life, the word symmetry represents vague notions of beauty, harmony and balance. In math and science, symmetry has a different, and very specific, meaning. In this technical sense, a symmetry is the property of an object.

The science of symmetry...

 And that actually helped a lot. But I'll tell you, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it comes to our attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poised on the brink on dramatic change. I mean, we are. And so I am going to leave you now

The power of introverts...

 to disprove what I knew people had assumed. My mother even said that, in order to put my best foot forward, I had to be patient, alert and excruciatingly well-mannered. To prove that I belonged, I had to show poise and confidence, the ability to speak well and listen closely.

Why it's worth listening...

 muscles need your constant attention because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. Say you're standing in front of a door, ready to pull it open. Your brain and muscles are perfectly poised to help you achieve this goal.

What makes muscles grow?...

 their lives that Hope has instructed my energies it has helped organize a small team of people of very dedicated people to actually conceive build launch and implement a global satellite network that is today poised to cover something

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 And the full telescope will be finished in the middle of the next decade, with all seven mirrors. So we're now poised to look back at the distant universe, the cosmic dawn. We'll be able to study other planets in exquisite detail.

This new telescope might...

 People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did.

My Daughter, Malala PIPE...

 a young chimp quite new to hunting his objective is simple to climb up beneath the monkeys and flush them out the team watches from below poised for action

Thought-provoking...

 Department is poised to raid a suspected morphine dealers home she's with her boyfriend who is potentially armed and dangerous this one headquarters got

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