Sentence examples for rather strained from inspiring English sources

The resemblance, if granted, is rather strained.

Chuck is reputed to maintain a rather strained relationship with Bloomberg, having bitten the mayor on the hand in 2009.

During the whole of my career I hardly ever spoke to the Reichsfuehrer SS because our personal relations were rather strained.

Sheriff James Scott said the prosecutor's "attempts to squeeze malice and ill will out of the agreed facts were rather strained".

Like Capital, City on Fire is nominally based around a rather strained whodunnit (and, like Capital, there is apparently an artistic motive behind the organising crime).

The same thought had obviously occurred to him, but in a slightly more literal sense because after a few minutes of rather strained chat, he said: "Why don't we have an orgy?

However, it should also be understood that rather than hearing strained legal arguments that it has "forfeited" a right to enrichment, Iran has a need – as a matter of pride and dignity – to hear that under the non-proliferation treaty it has a right to enrich for peaceful purposes just as it has a duty to refrain from making a nuclear weapon.

However, it should also be understood that rather than hearing strained legal arguments that it has "forfeited" a right to enrichment, Iran has a need – as a matter of pride and dignity – to hear that under the non-proliferation treaty it has a right to enrich for peaceful purposes just as it has a duty to refrain from making a nuclear weapon.

The filmmakers' point of view, by contrast, is that the two men are better off as failures — there is a strained, rather sheepish final scene in which the renewal of their friendship after the company's collapse is presented as a moral victory.

Roiphe, who reviewed the e-mail exchanges between McGinn and the student, and interviewed both McGinn and the student's boyfriend, who spoke on her behalf, wrote that their correspondence doesn't reveal one-sided threatening remarks but, rather, a "strange, strained, but avid and affectionate rapport".

As a result, the tissue was pre-loaded with a consistent indenter to 0.1 MPa rather than pre-strained to a specific level.