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Commanders in Afghanistan would like even more troops, but that is unlikely because the American military is so strained by current deployments there and in Iraq, officials said.

It was up to Avery to find his own back-up plan, but because the province's recovery industry is so strained by the deadly rise of super-potent synthetic opioids, he had no luck finding a comparable treatment centre bed.

His private life is tangled (his relationship with his son, Andrew, is so strained that he did not even turn up to his graduation).

In the Ballades, where good musical form is so strained and stretched and the expressive moment is valued almost as much as it is in Debussy, Mr. Pollini is right at home.

At La Guardia Airport in New York City, to take one notorious case, the system is so strained that less than half the flights arrived on time in the month of September.

In fact, the governor's relationship with the Legislature is so strained that when Mr. Paterson called the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, on Friday to say he was dropping out of the race for governor, it was his first conversation with Mr. Silver in a month.

But reading is so straining that it tires him after only a few minutes.

The cost of drug abuse is so straining Vinton that voters enacted levies on property owners to fund services for children and seniors.

Relations are so strained that the 13-member board ordered an internal review of its practices.

Already, relations were so strained that France and Italy failed to hold a traditional joint summit last year.

That's probably why trade relations are so strained between our countries.