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With boats and crew members strained by constant patrols since the Sept. 11 attack, the Coast Guard said this week that it would end 24-hour patrols in the Hudson River on Monday and instead periodically watch the plants by boat and air.
And now the future of Mercosur -- which encompasses Paraguay and Uruguay and the associated members Chile and Bolivia -- is in doubt because relations between the two principal members, Brazil and Argentina, are strained by currency fluctuations.
See articleRelations between Russia and NATO member Norway were strained by a naval incident.
Relations between Moscow and EU member states have been strained by the crisis in Ukraine and by EU sanctions imposed after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.
Democrats said the initiative would be viewed skeptically in Congress, where Mr. Daniels's relationships with members of both parties have been strained by his campaign to hold down spending.
A former governor of Kansas, Sebelius is one of Obama's longest-serving cabinet members, although their relationship has been strained by the flawed rollout of the healthcare law which, despite recent improvements, will leave an indelible mark on his second term in the White House.
The dialogue comes almost entirely from the messages, which delineate relationships among the members of Abe's family, a quirky bunch strained by past events and personality traits that rub one another the wrong way.
The atmosphere was so strained by the walkout of the Shiite members that L. Paul Bremer III, the chief American administrator here, summoned the entire Governing Council to his residence for dinner to help ease the tension.
The euro zone has been strained by the crisis, with yields on member states' bonds having diverged.
Strained by record enrollments and growing budget deficits, board members have proposed tripling or quadrupling in-state tuition for students who take more than 135percentt of the credit hours required for a major.
It is choked by concrete checkpoints, and strained by rationing.
