Sentence examples for is more strained from inspiring English sources

The local flame structure is more strained and less curved in these regions.

The musicologist Donald Tovey, writing in 1929, described the fugue as "tragic" on the scale of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 (Op. 131), although Sutcliffe argues that the movement is more strained and discomforting than tragic.

Seldom has the relationship been more strained.

At other moments, the discussion was more strained.

Her husband had moved in with another woman, so relations were more strained than between X and me.

And without solutions to these problems in sight, relations between talent and the studios are more strained than ever.

But relations between the two men are more strained than at any time since the previous general election, in 2008.The right, then, has problems.

Though some colleges are more strained than others by the growth, a certain amount of expansion has been built into plans for new construction and renovation.

Now, after months of bruising battles with a Legislature resistant to the broad spending cuts that he believes are necessary to save the state, Mr. Paterson's relationship with his former colleagues could not be more strained.

But the abrupt cancellation of a performance in China by the Moranbong Band, North Korea's answer to South Korean K-pop stars, suggests relations are more strained than they seem.

In a release issued Wednesday by Fitch, Charlene Chu, the firm's senior director for financial institutions in China, said that the financial positions of Chinese banks were more strained than they appeared to be and that "future asset quality deterioration is a near certainty".