Sentence examples for formidable strain from inspiring English sources

Experts knew back in March that a new, potentially formidable strain of the virus was circulating, yet practical difficulties forced them to stick with an obsolescent vaccine rather than press for a better formulation.

Written in 1975 — the year Mr. Rands relocated to America — this nine-minute piece represents a formidable strain of high modernism, expressed in leaping intervals and tumultuous rhythmic bursts.

The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB strains poses formidable challenges to the control of TB because infection with either MDR or XDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains can result in more serious disease, prolonged infectiousness, and a poor prognosis [ 1].

But the East River tides have proved too formidable even for the stronger blades, putting excessive strain on the bolts that hold them to the turbine hubs.

Of course, limiting presale and instituting formidable entrance screening is likely in to put strain on some promoters, especially those who have used ticket presales as a means of capitalizing on the post-EDM economy.

Multidrug drug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistance (XDR) strains of Acinetobacter baumannii have emerged as formidable nosocomial pathogens among burned patient [ 1, 2].

Cyanobacteria present a formidable challenge for water management industries, due to toxic and non-toxic strains often being closely related and frequently indistinguishable using traditional taxonomic approaches.

The strain faced by a ship on a whole constitutes probably the most formidable and complex of all structural engineering problems in two aspects: the determination of the loading, and the response of the structure.

However, because there are so many disease-causing strains of GBS, developing a widely effective vaccine has been a formidable challenge.

Identifying which bacteria are critical and which are bystanders, which strains affect which behaviors, by which pathways, in whom and when, is a formidable task.

"It was really tough... it didn't put a strain on our relationship, it was just the strain of life: life can seem pretty formidable at times," he says.