Word: braced
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...some 300 fighters against Hizballah on a 6,000-foot-high mountain ridge in the southern Chouf on Sunday night. Hizballah held off the Israeli army for 33 days in summer 2006 and doubtless would prevail in a full battle with the Druze. But as both sides brace for more fighting, Hizballah's leaders may well ponder whether the cost is worth another round...
...member states to come into force; Ireland is currently the only one among them that will do it by popular rather than parliamentary vote. Polls suggest that the Irish will do so, and with Cowen now leading the campaign, opponents of the treaty may want to brace themselves for a bruising...
...that were out of step with the Administration. Gates never found Fallon to be straying, but certainly publicly he seemed to be straying." Fallon plainly knew the explosive potential of the magazine article; he called Gates last week before the Defense Secretary had seen it and warned him to "brace himself." Fallon told the Washington Post last Thursday that the article was "poison pen stuff" and called it "really disrespectful and ugly." In a statement issued Tuesday, he said "it would be best to step aside and allow the secretary and our military leaders to move beyond this distraction...
...feel comfortable or fashionable walking around with Max Donelan's invention strapped to your knee. The bulky 3.5-lb. (1.6 kg) gadget "is not that pleasant," says Arthur Kuo, a biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, who co-wrote an article on the brace that appeared in Science last month. But Donelan's device pays off in other ways. Using the same principles that allow hybrid cars to recycle energy created in braking, braces worn on both knees can generate 5 watts of electricity by harvesting the energy inherent in a walker's stride. That may not sound like...
...charge probably won't deter London's superrich from tooling down Park Lane in their Lamborghinis, and Johnson is right that affluent households may just add a brace of low-emissions cars to their private transport options. A small increase in traffic as people take advantage of the exemption is unlikely to worry the Mayor, whose main aim is to wean people off private cars and onto buses, tubes and bikes. He says the scheme will be monitored and the exemption repealed if "hordes of people with a malignant turn of mind rush out to buy [low-emissions] cars just...