Poised
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In 1992, with the Islamic Salvation Front
poised
to win Algeria’s general election, the country’s military staged a coup and immediately canceled the election’s second round.
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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.
Whatever it is you are struggling to remember, it is not
poised
on the tip of your tongue, not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.
Because Egyptians are more optimistic than they have been in years, far less divided on religious-secular lines than we would think and
poised
for the demands of democracy.
All around me I sensed evil beings
poised
with daggers.
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