Sentence examples for braced for action from inspiring English sources

The Balanchine curtain rises on dancers who are waiting to dance, braced for action.

Yet the stage is far from empty: it features a central tableau of dancers, braced for action.

Middle Eastern studies programs at universities around the country have braced for action from Washington against perceived bias.

When German forces pushed back Americans in the Battle of the Bulge, the battalion braced for action and history.

Apart from a few fast turns, the dancer's thighs are always kept apart, often in poses, as if braced for action.

The City was braced for action – from the Bank and the Treasury – to head off the threat of recession after Thursday's report.

Relief workers in the area have been bracing for action for weeks, and the Kenyan government has expressed anxiety that its northern border could be barraged with Somali refugees if the United States mounted attacks.

In "Symphony in Three Movements," the curtain rises — to the opening chords of Stravinsky's music of that title — on a dynamic diagonal of 16 women braced for explosive action.

The mortgage industry had been braced for tougher action from the Bank after the chancellor used his Mansion House speech earlier this month to give Carney new powers to prevent a fourth bubble in the housing market since the early 1970s.

S.& P. also dropped the top credit rating of five large insurers, while several states and hundreds of municipalities with strong federal ties braced for similar actions.

"What do you think, I'm a fortune teller?" The new year first brought shoulder surgery, and now this: As The Times first reported, Hamilton met with league officials Wednesday as the Angels braced for significant disciplinary action against the outfielder.