Sentence examples for braced at the from inspiring English sources

ORDINARY Cubans braced at the approach of their country's independence day on May 20th.

The cops were braced at the gates.

"Kenya was braced at the crossroads on Saturday amidst growing concern that the demand for cliches is outstripping supply," wrote Elkim Namlo in Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper ahead of the vote.

The V-shaped bracing at the base marks the fortified pedestal from which 69 floors of office space will rise.

The proposed method is based on the Euler Bernoulli theory and limited to 2D multi-column systems with sidesway uninhibited or partially inhibited by lateral bracing at the top level.

Among various structural details, the load carrying fillet weld around the gusset plate of the diagonal bracing at the bridge bearing is predicted to be the most fatigue critical detail.

These contractures resolved after gentle manipulation under anaesthesia and bracing at the time of removal of the fixator.

These poor creatures rattle around, abrim with nervous energy, yearning to compete, braced at all times for the clang of the bell and the crack of the starting gun, never knowing peace.

As disarmingly bracing at times as the stunning Alberta mountains behind its love-frazzled characters, the romantic comedy "The Right Kind of Wrong" works often in spite of its willful eccentricities.

"I braced myself at the start of the year because we are not one of the biggest clubs," Bentley explained.

The half-hour "Juarez," on Monday night, is a bracing, at times mesmerizing introduction to the "Witness" series, a project of the filmmaker Michael Mann and the documentarian David Frankham, who directed three of the films.