Sentence examples for so strained that from inspiring English sources

Relations are so strained that the 13-member board ordered an internal review of its practices.

Relations have been so strained that one player allegedly belittled Lee in front of the squad by telling him his opinion was worthless.

In New York over the last few days the texture of daily routine was so strained that many New Yorkers were put on edge simply because the clear, late summer weather reminded them of last September.

Four years ago, relations were so strained that Mr. McCain left the Republican convention in Philadelphia two days early, returning for the final night only after a last-minute request by the Bush team.

Organisers have insisted that the teams were "working very well together", but the source said relations were now so strained that an extra ring of security had been put around Boyle's trailer within the Olympic stadium.

Mr. Bush, hampered by the split-second time delay and projecting an air of being led on a forced march, offered one lame quip after another, including a pun about Mr. Letterman's recent heart operation so strained that it left the host staring, mortified, into the camera.

But reading is so straining that it tires him after only a few minutes.

These isolates had the same value of MIC50 and MIC90 (1.0 μg/mL) to polymyxin B. So, strains that belonged to clone A were excluded.

Radical changes in technology, financing, demographics and purpose have so strained the system that the rivets holding it together are about to burst.

American relations with France are so strained over Iraq that even in a city like this one, which prides itself on being open-minded and tolerant, a piece of art can create hard feelings of trans-Atlantic proportions.

Biloxi's school district, which occasionally was so financially strained that students had to share textbooks, now receives additional revenues of six million dollars a year, has a new, state-of-the-art high school and a new football stadium, and provides two sets of books for each student (one set for home, one for the classroom).