Sentence examples for long strained from inspiring English sources

The theology of Hell had long strained credulity too far, even in the Middle Ages.

Aronofsky has long strained after art of a vast mythopoetic magnitude.

The case had long strained Libya's relations with the European Union.

After each of the evening meetings, which were long, strained, and tedious, I felt the stirrings of an old childhood sense of anxiety, obscure wrongdoing, and resentment.

This small Persian Gulf nation, a strategic ally of the United States, has long strained against the pressure of the political tensions between a Shiite majority and a king and ruling class of the Sunni minority.

The president's comments came during a news conference at the end of a summit meeting of North American leaders aimed at increasing cooperation in the region and resolving some of the issues that have long strained trilateral relations among the countries, whose people and economies depend heavily on one another.

Eve grownups break under long strain.

Long, strain-filled minutes pass, little or no progress is made, and the frisky, punishing waves come on and on.

Ms. Turkle is gradually reduced to a long strain of binary code.

I'm sorry, this runs against a long strain of discussion in the social sciences noting that while blindness or amputation is fairly straightforward, a reading disability or autism is not.

Parisians, tense and irritable after the long strain of the siege, were outraged by the action of rural France in electing a monarchist assembly committed to what they regarded as a dishonourable peace.