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unprepared for

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Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene ... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. Daniel Pipes

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. Howard Carter

Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships. H. G. Wells

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. Harrison Ford

The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable. Winston Churchill

The inevitable is that unprepared for. Samuel R. Delany

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