Strain

The numerous peace keeping operations and relief activities carried out in the last year continue to strain the Organization apos s limited resources.

It is true that the international relief system is under severe strain, facing burgeoning demands, and that international operations are becoming more dangerous.

Make a strain.

Something of a strain.

Take your time. Don't strain.

Strain in the German German relationship.

Not while I'm under this strain.

Now don't strain yourself, Will Mossop.

The international relief system is under grave strain. We should respond by strengthening the Department of Humanitarian Affairs and emphasizing the kind of comprehensive approach that complex emergencies demand.

Be careful, it's heavy. Don't strain anything.

I used it to strain the spaghetti.

This relationship, however, is not always without strain.

It's imperative to take the strain off himself.

Now you can strain him through a sieve.

A strain of this bacterium was grown in space.

Think of the strain involved by his prodigious feat.

People do such things under the strain of necessity.

I thought his collapse due to a mental strain.

The journey will be a strain. Master Phillipe, sir.

But you did well. He has the Curwen strain.

The aftermath of a disaster can be particularly difficult for developing countries and countries in transition as Governments cope with providing relief and rehabilitation efforts that can seriously strain their national economy and government infrastructure.

Yet freedom of speech in the West is under strain.

The Russian strain of political messianism is pretty much exhausted.

This was where I began to crack under the strain.

All together. Heavy. Keep the strain on those check lines.

For example, additional letters may be added to indicate a strain.

It would've been a strain to any ordinary woman, no doubt.

Bring your whole family down. I don't wanna strain my tonsils.

Her heart could not withstand the strain you put upon it.

For example, refugees leaving Sudan can strain the stability of neighboring Chad.

Prolonged periods of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Try to prevent Repetitive Strain Injury by reminding a user to rest.

I know about the strain of our different lives, our lives apart.

I can see that you've been under a great nervous strain lately.

Yes, the strain of the last few days has affected us all.

Relief

Griffith concluded that the type II R had been transformed into the lethal III S strain by a transforming principle that was somehow part of the dead III S strain bacteria.

To what extent the EU can take this strain, only time will tell.

The immense response by central banks and finance ministries has eased the strain.

Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.

We realize that reporting can be a strain on already limited administrative resources.

That the Security Council is under strain is illustrated in very many ways.