Even so, they were ill-prepared for the bleak prospects which they faced when they arrived at the spot government had chosen for them.
Another is that reforms were sometimes launched when the countries were ill-prepared.
All else being equal, early elections are fought between incompetent incumbents and ill-prepared challengers.
It also meant that many 'experts' were to be ill-prepared for the eventual disintegration of the state.
They were ill-prepared for the journey and experienced considerable problems in securing food at various farms and villages at which they stopped en route.
This made the party ill-prepared for the political concessions necessary to secure cross-bloc cooperation.
Moreover, teachers can themselves be unaware of differences or feel ill-prepared to address them with students.
Even at the larger stations, as late as the early 1880s, the authorities remained ill-prepared to receive a ship-load of disease contacts.
