Sentence examples for had been straining from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, Ms. Clinton held forth on gay rights and voter outreach at a lunch for the Human Rights Campaign, earning two standing ovations and telling the crowd that she had been straining to suppress tears all week.

The head of the search committee who chose himself to be the experienced vice-president to a callow president saw in George W Bush his opportunity to radically alter the place of the executive within the federal government, which he had been straining to do since he served as Donald Rumsfeld's assistant in the Nixon White House.

"They were regarded as a retreat at the very moment when every nerve of our country had been strained".

Yet, he went on, in the tribal areas the I.S.I.'s old links with the fundamentalists had been strained.

How many marriages had been strained by the problem I was struggling with?

Maurice Vanegas is precisely the kind of person Gov. George W. Bush has been straining to speak to this past week.

But Antakya has been straining under the influx of refugees, and Omar has struggled to find a job.

But NATO needs more ground troops, and the United States has been straining to meet that need.

Recent economic opportunities have been straining such norms as much as iconoclastic Maoism ever did.

The Himalayan pilgrimage centers have been straining to cope with the disaster.

One, Hungary, has been straining to cope with a gyrating currency.