1.   Clarets are aged in stainless steel vats or oak casks, and are bottled only when they are considered ready for sale.

2.   The Nashs have four hundred orchids ... but just sixty are considered ready for exhibiting.

3.   The Nashs have four hundred orchids... but just sixty are considered ready for exhibiting.

4.   Advanced computer technologies are often considered ready to sell to everyday folks once they work reliably most, but not all, of the time.

5.   Some may consider themselves ready for another quake if they have shoes by the bed, while others may have elaborate kits and have practiced emergency plans.

6.   Still, many people here, including Tung himself, believe he will face a hostile audience in explaining why Hong Kong is considered not ready for democracy.

7.   The grade means the two divisions are not considered ready for a major regional war until their deficiencies are corrected.

8.   Today the free states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are not considered ready for NATO membership, ostensibly because their armies are undeveloped.

9.   Bulgaria and Romania are not considered ready.

10.   But both organizations say the door remains open for Romania to join later when they consider it ready.