Certain later works unfold over extraordinarily lengthy spans of time, straining the capabilities of performers to play them and audiences to hear them.
They described a new attitude, born of the administration's awareness that the Iraq war has left it with a wide credibility gap at home and abroad and the realization that military action against Iran would strain U.S. capabilities, undercut other goals and possibly explode into a regional conflagration.
Temperature and strain sensing capabilities are demonstrated for temperatures up to 200 °C and up to 2% tensile strain.
Increasingly accurate short-range missiles — combined with Iran's use of "swarm" tactics involving hundreds of heavily armed patrol boats — could strain the defensive capabilities of even the most modern U.S. ships, current and former military analysts say.
The magnitude of the crisis "has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities," he said.
"The magnitude of responding to a crisis over a disaster area that is larger than the size of Great Britain has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities," said Mr. Bush, slightly exaggerating the stricken land area.
In this study we attempted to confer E. coli strain capability of automatic excretion of the chemical by employing a native anaerobic promoter.
"Operation Streamline in its current form already strains the capabilities of the law enforcement system past the breaking point," she said.
That has strained the permitting and inspection capabilities of the commission, whose budget — $71.1 million this fiscal year, down from $74.7 million last year — has not kept up.
The planes are designed to help Amazon handle its increasing transportation needs, which are growing as its share of global retail business increases, and straining the capacities and capabilities of its shipping partners, which include FedEx and UPS.
All six of these methods require solving an optimization problem to determine flux distributions as a means of evaluating the strain's (or mutant strain's) metabolic capabilities.
