Sentence examples for she was strained from inspiring English sources

Air Liquide stated that her termination was due to her holding dual employment, and that she was strained by her Clonaid service.

She says this migration deprived her of the black credentials she was straining to cultivate.

Brown's eyes were still dilated from an ophthalmology appointment, and she was straining to see the teacher.

She recalled that she was straining to hear what he was saying over the roar of the helicopter as he was leaving for a weekend in Hyannisport.

Her start was a touch twitchy, her legs did not turn over as quickly as she would have liked and by the seventh hurdle she was straining.

Looked at today, Hebey's residential work can seem a bit graceless, as if she was straining too hard to make her point.

She was the center and the source and the victim of a storm of wing beats; we were at the top of the world; the huge bird of God's body in us hovered; the great miracle pounded on her back, pounded around us; she was straining and agonized and distraught, estranged within this ­corporeal-incorporeal thing, this angelic other avatar, this other substance of herself... and she screamed".

But she is strained and awkward and has none of the drop-dead-sexy hauteur she showed us in My Summer of Love.

In the opening episode Gyllenhaal showed that she can handle an English accent without looking as if she's straining to remember vowel sounds.

The monitor is a tool that enables a person to hear when he or she is straining his or her back, and respond.

At a press conference with New York reporters on Monday, Hillary looked as if she were straining at the bit to announce her 2012 exploratory committee.