Sentence examples for it a strain from inspiring English sources

He found it a "strain to stay within the social dialogue," he said.

Still, he found it a strain, sitting there with his thesaurus and his encyclopedia of the classical world.

The children are not eligible for free school meals, and the couple find it a strain to shell out £25 a week for their lunches.

"IT CAN'T be that every annual salary negotiation makes it a strain just to begin the school year," said President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during a speech to Congress on March 1st.

In Britain we certainly got it wrong in 2010 when we stripped out things we then belatedly realised we still needed, like maritime reconnaissance and some of our air squadrons – and then along came Russian penetration missions in or near our airspace, and we found it a strain to register our disapproval of these incursions in the usual way.

Within it, a strain of D. maris previously isolated from a soil sample of Patagonia (Argentina) (Pucci et al. 2000) was able to produce TAG when grown on hexadecane as sole carbon source under nitrogen-limiting conditions (Alvarez 2003).

You really do want to enjoy it, but it's a strain to parse.

"They're going to do it, but it is a strain".

It was a strain, but it was also a relief".

Donnell: It puts a strain on it in a few different ways, really.

It has a strain of hippie in it, but other strains too.