prepared for

They were trained for trades, but not prepared for professions: carpentry, welding, gardening, plumbing for the boys; sewing and cooking and nursing for the girls.

Meanwhile, the migrants themselves are prepared for the worst.

They would, undoubtedly, be more prepared for what Denver was going to throw at them, a concern players voiced privately a year ago.

Most known bird extinctions have happened on islands, where populations are small and ill prepared for new threats, such as hunting, introduced predators, and diseases.

“We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington,” they write.