Sentence examples for it is strained by from inspiring English sources

Your sympathy for the incarcerated does you credit, even if it is strained by those who've committed particularly heinous acts.

Its feeble economy is strained by 100,000 newly arrived Ivorians.

The marriage of a professional couple is strained by their having to live a continent apart.

The push to install a democracy here is strained by a bitterness expressed by many Falluja residents.

Lottie is timid about mentioning her delicate health, which is strained by all the running about they do.

The public hospital system is strained by the pressures from increased admissions and less financial reimbursement under managed care.

Forbis's own hope is strained by the dull monotony of prison.

An operetta with a western theme, the film is at its most awkward when it is straining to be cinematic, by staging the action on a back-lot ranchero; it recovers its fluidity in the final two reels — presented here in well-preserved red-and-green Technicolor — which take place on a highly stylized interior set representing a gambling ship.

It would seem that the Zona concept, like the marriage, was strained by its expansion.

That's where the Nob Hill summit becomes important, because decades of "how it's done" is about to be strained by conflicting interests and the stress of just what to do if those "perjury pawns" become as common as the Garlock case suggests they might be.

Latvia, a former Soviet republic sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia, has been strained by demonstrations over its imperiled economy.