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The Prime Minister's suggestion will anger the Lib Dems at a time when relations between the Coalition partners are increasingly strained.

The number of college students who come from low- and middle-income families is growing, state higher education funding is being squeezed and college budgets are increasingly strained.

But good will doesn't extend to every corner of the neighborhood, especially when most of its 200,000 residents are renters and relations between tenants and landlords are increasingly strained.

Its resources are increasingly strained and the water quality threatened.

Although Germany has one of the world's most generous welfare systems, its resources are increasingly strained as more workers retire.

Thomas tracks the crystallization of a restrictive but apparently consensual interpretation of French republicanism, arguing that its ideals are increasingly strained, even as they remain politically powerful.

Noncommunicable diseases, including those requiring surgical care, are increasingly straining low- and middle-income countries.

Among those arguing for a change in course was Peterson, whose partnership with Schwarzman, perhaps inevitably, was increasingly strained.

The head of the General Accounting Office warned today that the Securities and Exchange Commission was "increasingly strained" because it did not have the financing to do its job while its workload has been rising.

Relations between the US and Pakistani intelligence have been increasingly strained this year after the arrest of a CIA operative, Raymond Davis, in Pakistan and the revelation that Osama bin Laden had been in hiding near Islamabad.

The city is enjoying a surge in tax revenues from a rebounding economy, but its budget is increasingly strained by higher costs for Medicaid, employee benefits and interest payments on its debt, a state fiscal monitor reported yesterday.