How To Use Bracer In A Sentence
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After that he turned to Autumn and found that she had already pulled out a set of ring-mail, complete with greaves and bracers.
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The bracero program contracted Mexican agricultural labor to US growers.
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Bianca Maria had all her secrets with all her love in the first hour of their embracery.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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On his forearm was a black coloured sandstone wrist-guard, or bracer.
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A remedy was found in an agreement with the Mexican government in 1942, which brought in some 200,000 Mexican workers - called braceros - on temporary work visas.
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His armor consisted of a pair of bracers, a pair of greaves, and a chain shirt, all made out of the same black material.
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His silver armor consisted of sleek silver leggings with a massive silver dragon bracer that he wore on his right arm, while he also wore two silver dragon gauntlets that were spiked and slightly tinged by dried blood.
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He put bracers on his forearms, the right one with a small, round shield attached, and fingerless gauntlets on his hands.
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It is without equal as a "bracer" as our western friends put it.
The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga
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There is "post set," employed in passing situation; "bracer skips," a zone-blocking technique; and "pop and jab," which is used on run plays.
Professor Callahan and His Crew
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It is without equal as a "bracer," as our Western friends put it.
The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath
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The "bracer" or arm guard of heavy leather for left arm, with two laces to tie it on.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
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Luin was clad in battle armor, with a breastplate, greaves, bracers and side armor - his arms were bare.
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Here convention delegates unanimously rejected the idea of a bracero program in their industry.
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America imported Mexican farm labourers under its Bracero programme.
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We share archery tackle preferences, Recurve bow (mines a Red Wing Hunter 35 years young) cedar arrows, feather fletching, old fashioned broadheads, home made quiver, bracer and fingertabs for the loose.
"Fly Fishing" for Elk with a Recurve Bow
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So I had a few bracers, called my boss, and informed him of the tragedy; I was in New Hampshire, grieving with my relatives - my voice trembling.
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The bracer is a piece of stout polished leather, which is buckled round the arm which holds the bow, to prevent the string from hurting it when it is let go.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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He discusses how fluctuations in the U.S. economy correlate with the bracero programs and ‘Operation Wetback’ of the 1950s.
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A decade into the Bracero Program, undocumented outnumbered legal braceros three to one.
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The arrow flew through the air, quivering, and struck the leader in the chink between his bracers and breastplate.
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I acknowledge that I am a change embracer.
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Although I bet she had to work to get her wrists strong enough, she thought, and I'll bet she probably wears bracers.
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Activists such as Ernesto Galarza and Cesar Chavez documented extensive abuses of workers under the bracero program, in place from 1942 to 1964.
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He fought tooth and nail for the bracero system as no Republican governor of an agricultural state dared to do.
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She looks with respect on the program's effort to set standards for wages, housing, and guarantees of employment for the braceros.
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The neighborhood continued to serve as a port of entry for many incoming Mexican immigrants, braceros, Mexican American migrants, and Puerto Rican labor migrants.
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As she waited she picked up a leather bracer from the table and went about strapping it back into place on her wrist.
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The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
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Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
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There is a statute and common law offense known as embracery, which is defined to consist "in such practices as lead to affect the administration of justice, _improperly working upon the minds of jurors_.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
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He was only five paces away from Lyenda who had then pulled on tabs for her drawing arms and had put on the arm bracers.
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Careful analyses by boards of health and government chemists of a great number of advertised medicines have shown that three-fourths of the so-called tonics and "bitters" and "bracers" of all sorts contain alcohol -- some of them in such large amounts as to be stronger and more intoxicating than whiskey.
A Handbook of Health
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Former braceros are suing the Mexican Government for billions of dollars.
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The braceros, from the Spanish word for arm, were agricultural workers sent by Mexico to the United States between 1940 and 1960.
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For them, sanctions have failed - they fear a new bracero program and don't have the resources to take advantage of one.
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While H - 1B workers are paid considerably more than the minimum wage, ‘it still is like the old bracero program,’ she asserts.
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We've got about ten minutes in the bar for a quick bracer and pit-stops before the others arrive.
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This is the most fundamental expression of the growers' advantage in using braceros: a bracero knew he could not complain.
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Then, in spite of the early hour, he took a stiff "bracer," and throwing on his slicker, went out.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
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INA amendments in 1965 established a family reunification system, which enabled braceros to sponsor (or withhold or withdraw sponsorship of) immediate family members.
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In 1942, as World War II produced another labor shortage, an Executive Order initiated the bracero program which recruited four to five million Mexicans to work in the United States.
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Jennifer C. Braceras, a lawyer and mother is a research fellow at Harvard Law School.
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Chavez later said he could never have organized the United Farm Workers until growers could no longer hire braceros during strikes.
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The "bracer" was getting in its work, and Perkins was feeling good again.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
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Federal agencies encouraged Mexican workers with the World War II bracero program, and then reinstituted mass deportations in the 1950s.
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Oh, the vest-thing is called a chest guard, so the string of my bow doesn't get caught on my shirt, and the wristband is called a bracer.
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You have committed embracery, theft, arson, perjury, adultery, murder -- every crime in the calendar and every excess known to the sensual and depraved, including my learned friend, the District Attorney.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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Despite the end of the original bracero program, two guest-worker programs still exist in the United States, supplying skilled workers to the high-tech sector and farm laborers to agribusiness.
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He told himself that he must have a "bracer" to steady his nerves.
Mischievous Maid Faynie
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He finished buckling on the rest of his armour: chest-plate, shoulder-pads, bracers, shin-guards and the works.
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Since 1942, long before the first rows arrived, braceros from Mexico had done much of the labor for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington agriculture and would continue to do so until 1947.
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Much grappa disappears into steaming cups of espresso called caffé correcto as a midmorning bracer on a cold day.
