Sentence examples for braced for that from inspiring English sources

The agency's officials were braced for that level of cuts, but they were mistaken.

Lichtenstein was braced for that obstacle, of course; what he hadn't expected was local ingratitude.

Labour was braced for that – but it was the political punchback that never came.

"I'd had a fantastic job that I'd walked away from and writing is inherently full of rejection, no matter who you're related to, so I was braced for that, and I did get my share of it".

In a nation always awaiting the news of another school shooting, no community may be braced for that threat quite like the one surrounding Columbine High, a place forever defined by the 1999 attack that killed 13 people, wounded 24 more and ushered in an Internet-fueled era of mass violence.

In recommending José, which I'm about to do, I need to be unequivocally clear about the fact that if you go when it's busy, you're likely to spend your visit standing up; if you're not braced for that, go when it's quiet or don't go.

The builders are bracing for that possibility.

Mr. Hoenig said he and his colleagues were bracing for that.

Residents in Rockingham, which has had two races a year since 1966, are bracing for that, too.

Many senior members of the Bloomberg administration are bracing for that.

BIBLIS, Germany -- Not since the grim period after World War II has Germany had significant blackouts, but it is now bracing for that possibility after shutting down half its nuclear reactors practically overnight.