Sentence examples for imposing a strain from inspiring English sources

The growing presence of Dominicans in Puerto Rico, now estimated to be at least 5percentt of the commonwealth's population, or a minimum of 150,000, is imposing a strain on the island's municipal and social services, commonwealth officials reported.

In addition one cylinder of each material was instrumented with two strain gauges in order to determine the elastic modulus, and test were performed by imposing a strain rate of 1 mm/min.

"What we discovered is that you can impose a strain field to cause the fracture to be guided, and you can use that for controlled fabrication," Strano says.

On Tuesday, Admiral Mullen made clear that he expected the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to impose a strain on the armed services for years to come.

We propose that hAGT imposes a strain on the DNA duplex and searches for DNA regions where the native structure is destabilized.

These defects and excess atoms produce a stress field in this region and impose a strain in the system [22].

The treatment costs of smokers imposed a strain on Medicaid budgets, they claimed, that the companies ought to pay back.

In the years to come, the aging of the population will increasingly impose a strain on health care systems worldwide.

This, in turn, leads to a significant economic burden because of time lost from work and imposes a strain on the health care system.

Concrete shrinkage is simulated by imposing a volumetric strain on the concrete element.

It involves complex processes of erosion and deposition such as those along beaches and in river beds, imposing a strong strain on human beings.