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If the Trump administration supports or turns a blind eye to those efforts, the EU – sandwiched between Russian trolls and Breitbart News – will have to brace itself for challenging times indeed.
Though M5S and League leaders are not calling for a withdrawal from the eurozone, much less the EU, their ostensibly domestic agenda is bound to damage the bloc’s foundations.The EU must brace itself.
The EU must brace itself.
Now, with major advanced-country central banks preparing to “taper” their quantitative-easing (QE) programs, the world must brace itself for additional bouts of financial turmoil in the next few years.
If none of this happens, my advice is simple: adopt the brace position.
We should brace ourselves for the coming conflict.
When that happens, the world had better brace itself.
And now they must brace for the impact of a lethal disease while lacking both adequate health infrastructure and the financial firepower of advanced economies.
Better to brace ourselves, the argument goes, than naively to ignore the hegemonic clash that will define the “new normal.”
So should we brace for four more years of Trump, or is change coming?
The alternative is to adopt the brace position.
America and the world should brace themselves for the long haul.
We must brace for our “Pearl Harbor moment,” warns US surgeon general Jerome Adams.
She was obliged to show him how to straddle his legs and brace his feet against the planking on both sides of the gallery, in order to give himself a more solid fulcrum.
He left the house unaccompanied, and went to the gunsmith's to procure a brace of pistols, which he told the man to load.
With provincial caution, Julien always carried a brace of pocket pistols; his hand gripped one of these in his pocket with a convulsive movement.
Julien had some difficulty in making him understand that he required a brace of pistols.
So they stood, each with a foot placed at an angle as a brace, and both shoving with might and main, and glowering at each other with hate.
Huck was given a seat and the old man and his brace of tall sons speedily dressed themselves.
I might brace myself and blame myself, and do what I would, but still I could not feel that the same blood ran in our veins, and that she was but a country lassie, as I was a country lad.
Such was the morning, when an open carriage, in which were three Pickwickians (Mr. Snodgrass having preferred to remain at home), Mr. Wardle, and Mr. Trundle, with Sam Weller on the box beside the driver, pulled up by a gate at the roadside, before which stood a tall, raw-boned gamekeeper, and a half-booted, leather-legginged boy, each bearing a bag of capacious dimensions, and accompanied by a brace of pointers.
Where are they--where are they?''Where are they!' said Wardle, taking up a brace of birds which the dogs had deposited at his feet.
Take a brace, for God's sake!
Two of Ruhmkorff's apparatus, which, by means of an electric current, supplied a safe and handy portable light [2]The arms consisted of two of Purdy's rifles and two brace of pistols.
He got three and a half brace, but I shot his liver-coloured pointer, so he had to pay.
I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines.--Watson,
I have heard, too, thou dost love a brace of good dogs and a fleet horse, and it may well be that, loving things which are costly to come by, thou hatest not a purse of gold.
"For a score of marks to the dortour," said the Outlaw,--"Be still, I say, Isaac!--or for a brace of silver candlesticks to the altar, we will not stand with you.""Nay, but, good Diccon Bend-the-Bow"--said Isaac, endeavouring to interpose.
I failed not to set my own heels at liberty by means of the fetter-key, which hung amongst others at the sexton's belt; and I had thoughts of beating out the knave's brains with the bunch of keys, but gratitude for the nook of pasty and the flask of wine which the rascal had imparted to my captivity, came over my heart; so, with a brace of hearty kicks, I left him on the floor, pouched some baked meat, and a leathern bottle of wine, with which the two venerable brethren had been regaling, went to the stable, and found in a private stall mine own best palfrey, which, doubtless, had been set apart for the holy Father Abbot's particular use.
After all, things can't remain as they are,' he said, trying to brace himself.
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