Sentence examples for are very strained from inspiring English sources

And the relations between China and Norway are very strained at the moment".

Many women are very strained by their double commitments".

Shohan said, "All of them are very strained, and their lives are constructs".

But relations were very strained before all this.

"For an Olympic year we've been very strained.

"My relationship with my mother, for the next 23 years, was very strained.

When the Falklands war broke out, relations for a time were very strained.

"Relations have been very strained between Russia and Turkey of late so Moscow will be trying its utmost to contain the damage this might cause," she added.

CH: Well, I certainly very much hope that, obviously, the process of healing in the relationships, which have been very strained in the family, will proceed, now that this is slowly getting behind us.

"The population is very strained.

It was a milestone for Polish-German relations, which for hundreds of years were very strained.