Poised in a sentence as an adjective

We're poised for overnight success in a larger market, and on our own terms.

I think that if you have at least a video of real game-play, your poised to take donations like this.

The Occulus was poised to create an entirely new industry.

At the same time, the industry probably has lobbyists poised to protect their model with "think of the children.

Today Japan is still strong but their economy is troubled and nobody thinks that they are poised to control the world.

Without Bezos, Amazon appears to be poised to continue it's great leadership.

In times of trouble, the firm would be poised to jump in and coach the team on the appropriate way to respond to crisis in the public eye.

Occulus was poised to be revolutionary because it was going to be bigger than one headset, it was going to be an open platform for an entire generation of VR tech.

It strikes me as very short-sighted as I think Python is well-poised to make waves in the data analysis, statistics, and high performance computing ecosystem.

Graphics support has been the biggest thorn in Linux's side for years, and dividing the ecosystem at a time when Valve is poised to finally revolutionize things is pretty despicable.

People need to start accepting that government != country; such people as such being called as "terrorists" or "communists" or other words that were bandied about as the bogeyman of the time are perceived as threats to the government by those most poised to profit from that government.

When his patents do run out, the Chinese manufacturers will be the ones poised to bring his technology to the world market, meaning all the jobs and economic benefits that could have gone to the local residents will instead go to the people of Gansu Province.

Poised definitions

adjective

marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"

adjective

in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"

See also: collected equanimous self-collected self-contained self-possessed