Sentence examples for ever strained from inspiring English sources

If her chaotic job has ever strained her family life, we don't learn about it here.

It was a sign-off scene that, as ever, strained good humor as much as civic patience.

There are more competitions now than ever, straining resources.

Perahia was able to summon up all his usual refinement without ever straining to be heard.

Time and neglect later got the better of it, but for a good long while, it had sophistication without ever straining for it and warmth to burn.

But that loyalty has come under perhaps its greatest ever strain as calls have mounted for the resignation or dismissal of Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence, over the torture and humiliation of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Stand in the middle of the room, take a deep breath, and look at the work you've accomplished without ever straining or losing your breath!

This is because these companies aren't unaware of the fact that Asia is currently the driver of the world's economy, while other continents' financial conditions are ever-increasingly strained.

MARTHA ROSLER Rosler's new photomontages are as irately political as ever, while straining toward the gravitas of history painting (look for echoes of Jacques-Louis David's "Oath of the Horatii" in the twelve-foot-wide banner "Prospect for Today").

Relations between Warsaw and Moscow have been strained ever since.

Understandably, relations between father and son have been strained ever since.