Sentence examples for break under the strain from inspiring English sources

The Army, he repeatedly warned, could break under the strain.

Maybe the euro zone won't break under the strain.

For a few seconds he worried that his bones, accustomed to the comfort of Buenos Aires and its armchairs, might break under the strain.

Too short or narrow and the condom could break under the strain; too big and it can slip off, leaving users exposed to STIs and risking pregnancy.

Later the divine light is enclosed in finite "vessels," most of which break under the strain, and the catastrophe of the "breaking of the vessels" occurs, whereby disharmony and evil enter the world.

Many more simply broke under the strain of battle.

But for some of the other 3percentthethe system breaks under the strain.

(At the last minute the cord broke under the strain, freeing Mr. Humar).

Her two sisters, who live in New York, describe her as a sweet, quiet woman whose mind broke under the strain of life as an illegal immigrant seeking asylum.

By 1989, for example, Argentina's inflation was so strong that the printing presses of the national mint reportedly broke under the strain.

Yet it refused to do so thanks to domestic worries, chiefly a desire to limit a Wall Street boom.The revived system broke under the strain of depression.