Sentence examples for braced to work from inspiring English sources

The baths are hissing with steam and, with this last in mind, interpreters for President Boris Yeltsin and Ryutaro Hashimoto, the prime minister of Japan, are braced to work en déshabille at the least formal moments of this weekend's informal summit.

Remarkably, after Mr. Close lost much of his manual function and came to rely on an arm brace to work, his painting technique began to show greater evidence of a distinctive touch.

It was bracing to experience the work through the prism of Aimard's technique, but I wouldn't want to hear it this way again.

But it is always bracing to see his work and to realize that part of its energy derives from its refusal to go softly in art history.

In this book, where searing political upheavals like the Lebanese civil war figure but don't dominate, and in an era when almost all we seem to see of the Middle East is terrorism, it's bracing to come upon a work — and a world — that expands our narrow vision, transforming it to one of multiplicity, enchanting it with hope.

Employers, some of whom may also stay up all night for the results, are braced for a sluggish return to work tomorrow morning.

Five minute breaks to brace yourself can work wonders.

Last year, the devices were replaced, but by then, she said, debris-caused tissue damage was so extensive that she now needs a brace to walk and still cannot work.

That this should feel like an original approach is testimony to how bracing his work really is.

The time required for braces to do their work varies from person to person, depending on the severity of the problem; the amount of space available on your jaw; the distance the teeth must travel; the health of your mouth; and how closely the patient follows instructions.

The Charleston's exaggerated shape, different than the corset-like straightness of other brace models, worked to bend my spine in the opposite direction of the curve.