Sentence examples for point of strained from inspiring English sources

The appointment of the so-called "cop's cop," who rose the ranks by leading tough investigative units in the homicide squad and guns and gangs unit, comes at a point of strained relations with members of the city's black community, who feel targeted by a practice known as "carding".

"But we are right on the edge at this point of straining their capacity to move forward.

Even so, he writes that improvements in student achievement "are dramatic to the point of straining the limits of credibility -- but they're true".

SINCE its inaugural summer in 1996, the Lincoln Center Festival has striven, almost to the point of straining, to present the widest range of international performing arts: a "Zulu Macbeth" from South Africa, Vietnamese water puppets, ballet troupes from China and Russia, Irish theater companies in surveys of plays by John Millington Synge and Samuel Beckett, and more.

As patriarch of Greek Catholics, Maximus V was an advocate of closer relations with the Orthodox Church, even to the point of straining ties with Rome, said Tarek Mitri, a Lebanese scholar who monitors the Eastern Christian churches for the World Council of Churches in Geneva and who also lectures on Eastern Christianity at Geneva University.

As the father and son carried him in, Nawab, alert to the point of strain, observed blood on some rumpled sheets, a rusty blot.

Rather I follow the National Osteoporosis Foundation guidelines in cautioning against "twisting of the spine to the point of strain" and encourage students with osteoporosis to avoid extreme twists, to keep rotation in the mid range and use a gentle quality of motion.

Milk said that this was a major point of strain on consumers that are hyped on VR potential and are willing to drop a lot of cash.

A further investigation will study the point of strain conversion and the H-termination during cooling down with Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy in a future work.

Furthermore, the defined cut-off value of the screening on PTSD was used to estimate a critical point of strain induced by the coercive intervention.

Muravskii's non-analytical modification of Reid's model is shown to be inconsistent with its primary goal of achieving continuity at the points of strain-rate reversal.