The battle-ready pieces were stored somewhere else.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Is The Darkness]

It helped that he kept himself in battle-ready shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]

That still leaves fifteen ‘battle-ready’ officers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drain The Lake « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

A serious, battle-ready case for serious photographers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The PJ Candy Store (equipment)] Reference

The company says it can assemble hundreds of battle-ready men.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006] Reference

But how many folks will actually need such a battle-ready cell phone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CES 2010: Sonim offers one tough cell phone] Reference

Ignorance was the greatest cause of fear among the battle-ready members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Destruction]

ROBERTSON: Colonel Thear is one of the battle-ready battalion commanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2005] Reference

The Defense Ministry in Seoul says it's as battle-ready and alert as ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [AN ARMY ADRIFT] Reference

But the smile was gone from his mouth and now he wore a battle-ready face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year of the Unicorn]

In just five years, the U.S. military wants a handful of battle-ready fighting drones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revenge of the Killer Drones] Reference

"In orbits or under accelerations that fit the pattern of a battle-ready naval force.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

The Pentagon scrambling to explain conflicting numbers on battle-ready Iraqi battalions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2005] Reference

It's that it makes her look clueless, especially in comparison to the battle-ready Mayor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billary for Senate? President, First Lady Double-Team Giuliani] Reference

At least not in the mobilized, battle-ready and efficient form we saw during the campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Daou: Vital Lessons from the Health Reform Wars] Reference

But it's more than just fair; it helps render Obama battle-ready if he becomes the nominee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running an Insurgency] Reference

Compare that with Israel's 180 thousand on active duty and a million battle-ready reservists.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Zimbabwe's army is about 35,000 strong, there are only about another 2,000 battle-ready troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

What consideration was given to the procurement of battle-ready RG31 protected patrol vehicles?.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's the Sun wot done it] Reference

The men were scruffy, Huthaifa mused as he greeted them, and seemed hardly in battle-ready form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi] Reference

The officer thought somewhat painfully of how the attempt to make a lifeboat battle-ready had failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Mission Moluk]

Rival candidate Senator Hillary Clinton is also deploying her most battle-ready field marshals to Ohio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beverly Davis: Ohio: Obama Lands His A-Team] Reference

The company says it can assemble hundreds of battle-ready men, a small private Army at a moment's notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2007] Reference

Today, and on every day to come, be battle-ready: be prepared to tell your legislators they've crossed the line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Sive: A National Day of Action to Stop Stupak] Reference

Michael Bell, who is one of a team of U.S. and Hungarian mentors tasked with making this young kandak battle-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't escalate a failing war] Reference

The Keldons remained battle-ready, even in their own homes, their lands having always served as a large armed camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodlines]

To simplify the decision for him, we are insuring that his ship will out-transition in the center of a battle-ready fleet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference

I think most women, even those who are most battle-ready, would inherently prefer not to have everything always be a fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference

Somehow, despite all of the chatter about progress, Iraq seems to have less battle-ready units today then they had a year ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [10/17/2005] Reference

The Tudescans were up and battle-ready in an instant, even though he and Chusai had come upon them as silently as they were able.    From Wordnik.com.  [beneath an opal moon]

The scout stood in constant communication with the mothership, which belonged to a battle-ready squadron of the Solar Spacefleet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blazing Sun]

Ywodh of Nanteiwon, appointed their leader by Kyrwedhin before the parliamentarian returned here, put them in battle-ready order.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

But the Pentagon wanted to know when its overpriced conspiracy-magnet would produce that battle-ready technology they'd been promised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Ice Creations] Reference