I was an emotional mess, crying one minute and excited the next, bracing myself for the unknown adventure ahead.
In his next brace of interviews, Miliband is bound to backtrack by arbitrarily listing recent television programmes and unconvincingly declaring them to be his favourite.
"Nobody wants to be the next Palm Beach," Mr. Brace said.
Whatever Tuesday's first quarter GDP figures show, the next government should brace itself for a hard landing, according to an economics thinktank.
Then follow within the next set of braces with the sub parts of each major part.
"Nobody wants to be the next Palm Beach," said Mr. Brace, who testified in Florida's Leon County Circuit Court in Vice President Al Gore's challenge of the election results.
It takes at least two-and-a-half years to train a sheepdog, and to get them to the next level, working a brace (two dogs at the same time with different tonal whistles), takes further years of constant practice.
The next day, after a bracing swim, we set out to meet the 12 Apostles.
Around the world in the offices of the big global miners, executives preparing to report their financial results over the next few days are bracing themselves for questions from investors about the safety of their own mining waste.
It's not the first horror film to make adolescent sexuality its chief conduit of fear, as a mysterious chasing curse is passed like an STD from one randy teen to the next, but it's bracing in its sensitivity.
His slight frame covered in a blocky gold-buttoned blazer and blue and white striped shirt – the official uniform for wealthy fathers who own yachts – Bacharach stands and addresses the audience throughout his greatest-hits set, formally delivering an itinerary for the next hour as if bracing us all for the long haul.
