Sentence examples for quite strained from inspiring English sources

Financial markets remain quite strained and credit conditions tight.

And industry executives say Google's relations with Yahoo are quite strained; Yahoo owns Google stock and was responsible for much of its early growth.

While Mr. Bloomberg's relationship with Gov. David A. Paterson has been generally cooperative, his relationship with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, has been quite strained.

"But to capture much of what's happened in the century for a gay man, I think I would get quite strained," he said.

Occasionally he shows an irresistible desire to photograph merely feet, which sometimes is only fairly interesting, while at other times it is quite strained.Miss Bronson appears still to be living as Peter Pan, which is perhaps perfectly natural, as in this case she is supposed to be a school girl and as such she does not have to appear as a sophisticated actress or as a hoyden.

The relationships of some of the Heads of State after Copenhagen were quite strained.

The resemblance, if granted, is rather strained.

THE quality of international justice is no longer quite so strained, but its reach is still uncertain.

But there has never been anything quite like the strained but polite scene yesterday as Senator Jesse Helms sat in the council chamber and warned that the United States would withdraw if the U.N. sought "to impose its presumed authority on the American people without their consent". Several members of the Security Council disputed Mr. Helms, but with utmost diplomacy.

But there has never been anything quite like the strained but polite scene yesterday as Senator Jesse Helms sat in the council chamber and warned that the United States would withdraw if the U.N. sought "to impose its presumed authority on the American people without their consent".

There's another photograph that comes to mind, quite different from the strained smiles of wedded bliss.