Sentence examples for severely straining from inspiring English sources

Five Egyptian security personnel were subsequently killed by Israeli forces as they pursued the attackers, severely straining Israeli-Egyptian relations.

It is now largely focused on helping Jordanians handle the estimated 180,000 Syrian refugees who have crossed the border and are severely straining the country's resources.

He was named president of the State University at Stony Brook on Long Island in 1980, at a time when state budget cuts were severely straining the campus.

The liberality of Peel's Irish policy, especially the greatly increased grant to the Catholic seminary of Maynooth, aroused strong Protestant feeling in England, severely straining relations with his own party.

Many of the units being rented out as hotel rooms were rent-stabilized or single-occupancy apartments, and housing advocates worry that the practice is severely straining the city's tight rental market.

Elderly veterans struggling to cope with rapidly rising drug costs are pouring into the health care system of the federal Veterans Affairs Department, so severely straining its resources that in some parts of the country, thousands of them are waiting years to see a V.A. doctor.

For an artist like Koons, whose vast ambition and ruinous needs have severely strained the resources of several dealers and nearly bankrupted him, this obstacle seemed surmountable.

The programme is severely strained.

More important, community colleges are severely strained.

But the backbone is now severely strained.

Lebanon accommodates 317,229 Syrian refugees, despite its severely strained resources.