Sentence examples for are strained enough from inspiring English sources

Provincial finances are strained enough as it is, and our healthcare system is already overburdened with unnecessary medical treatments, like cancer medication.

If romance with increasing reliance upon renewables isn't being strained enough by painful electricity costs, power blackouts are adding to buyer's remorse.

Sometimes these systems will be strained enough to fail, and when they do, as happened to sewage systems during Hurricane Sandy, costs (both human and financial) skyrocket.

The evening was strained but friendly enough that we agreed to meet again the next day in Central Park.

True Greek yogurt must be strained to remove enough liquid to give it the proper thickness, Mr. Ulukaya says.

• Subsequent batches were so popular that Sixpoint, which has five employees, was straining to produce enough of it along with the brewery's regular recipes.

His department was straining to produce enough new dies to meet production.

As if Good Friday -- the day applicants hear from the Harvards, Browns and Columbias all at once -- weren't strain enough, now they half-seriously talk about getting shot.

As if crisis management of the present moment weren't strain enough, Mr. Block faces questions over about $40,000 in expenses that a group he controlled paid to the Cain campaign in its early days, possibly violating tax and election laws.

Experimenters need to choose a statistical analysis strategy and perform power calculations to ensure that there are enough strains in their study to have a reasonable chance of successful association.

For a marriage that was already strained my choice was more than enough to send my wife packing.