Sentence examples for more strained between from inspiring English sources

But with relations becoming ever more strained between Athens and the bodies keeping it afloat, Tsipras is also facing growing calls to look elsewhere.

PAGE A13 Union Dissidents Vote to Realign A13 POLICE SLAYINGS STIR MORE WORRIES The killing of four police officers in Oakland by a black motorist caused worries of even more strain between black residents and the police.

Moreover, government officials and industry analysts say negotiations between Time Warner and ABC had grown more strained after Time Warner's announcement that it intended to merge with America Online.

After all, relations between the generations were much more strained in the late '60s and '70s.

But the relationship between Williams and Duquette became more strained in recent days when Duquette defended Carl Everett, Boston's center fielder, after he arrived late for a game.

Nevertheless, the specter of three Americans on trial in Iran could add more strain to relations between Iran and the United States at a time when the countries are engaged in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, and it raises questions about whether Iran will try to use the captured Americans as a bargaining chip in those talks.

Similarly, at ML2, significantly more strains with alleles between 223 and 237 (42%, 22/52) were from case-patients who had touched or handled farm animals than were strains with alleles 193 and 197 (0%, 0/13) (Mann-Whitney U test, p = 0.000).

It would also put more strain on the eurozone's political unity, already frayed by divisions between wealthy European nations (Germany) and the not-so-wealthy (everybody else).

Comparison of the protein profiles showed that 141 proteins were present in all NTM strains studied and approximately 80% of the proteins were shared between two or more strains (named common proteins).

A recent divergence between two or more strains is often indicated by dN >  dS, since such mutations are more likely to take place within a short time span [ 19].

Using only those genes that are common to all four strains, we found a total set of 70 genes that showed a 2.5-fold or more difference in expression in one or more strains when pairwise comparisons were made between the transcriptomes of 2122/97 and 1121/01, 2451/01 or 1307/01 (Additional file 3).