Sentence examples for bracing for action from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Everyone recognizes how a corps de ballet frequently makes lines: Balanchine's "Symphony in Three Movements" (1972), currently in repertory at City Ballet, begins with a stunning example — a diagonal of 16 women across the stage, their bodies braced for action.

In the immediate wake of the terrorist attack on Lower Manhattan, hospitals throughout the metropolitan area braced for action, setting up gurneys, mustering surgeons, rounding up supplies of blood -- all for streams of victims that never came.

Bank of America disclosed last week in a corporate filing that it was bracing for an action from the Justice Department.

Cigar producers say they are bracing for F.D.A. action, even as sales have flattened in the last few years, dampened by new taxes.