You try straining it through cheesecloth, but it doesn t do much good.

The aging population is straining the public pension and healthcare systems beyond sustainability.

France vigorously opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, straining bilateral relations with the US and the UK.

For Central Americans, the cost of drugs will soar, straining budgets and gutting health care. The result may be a death sentence for many.

And they bear your burdens to towns , which you could not reach except by straining yourselves . Indeed your Lord is most kind and merciful .

And they bear your burdens to towns , which you could not reach except by straining yourselves . Indeed your Lord is most kind and merciful .

The moral case for a wealth tax is more compelling than usual today, with unemployment still at recession levels, and with deep economic inequality straining social norms.

While Abe has not acted on these campaign statements, some observers remain convinced that he will visit Yasukuni at some point, further straining Japan s relations with South Korea and China.

Overreaction and herding behavior by market participants could trigger a sudden reversal of capital inflows, with a severe dollar shortage as occurred in 1997 and 2008 straining Asian banks and corporations.

But it has nothing to do with the significance and complexity of the tectonic historical forces now grinding their way forward, straining and beginning to tear asunder the region s political landscape.

Noting the immediate response by the Government of the Philippines to this ecological disaster, which is straining its limited resources in the needed massive clean up operations, and its request for international support,

In another worrisome development, a group of Chadian deserters took refuge in the Darfur region, straining relations between the Sudan and Chad and adding yet another destabilizing factor to the complex regional picture.

As the Soviet Union steadily disintegrated, with virtually all of its 15 republics straining at the leash, Yeltsin gained the leadership of the largest the Russian Federation which placed him in a tactical alliance with independence campaigners in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Georgia.