Sentence examples for were braced for from inspiring English sources

THE ruling Socialists were braced for bad local-election results.

As those hopes faded, investors were braced for turmoil.

I don't think we were braced for that.

Yet the riders at the Giro were braced for a hazardous race.

The police here were braced for protests that might follow the sentencing.

They were braced for ringing phones today, their own sort of Black Friday surge.

Analysts were braced for another deal, but the timing of Tuesday's bid was a surprise.

Barrie Cornes, insurance analyst at Panmure Gordon, agreed that insurers were braced for a larger bill.

In Jerusalem and elsewhere, Israelis were braced for retaliation from Hamas.

And many were braced for Friday's ruling, which could set precedents for the country's use of the death penalty.

In 2006, my publisher and I were braced for the Nigerian publication, unsure of how it would be received.