Sentence examples for stand the strain from inspiring English sources
"stand the strain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to endure or withstand pressure or stress. Example: The team's captain was confident that they could stand the strain of the intense competition and come out victorious.
Between 25 and 30 a man is best able to stand the strain.
Sometimes these men couldn't stand the strain of their difficult lives and simply vanished.
For example: can the Pension Protection Fund PPFF) stand the strain of having substantial liabilities dumped on it?
The US may be strong enough to stand the strain but what about Europe, which is competing against Japan in Asian markets?
But neither sex can stand the strain on its attractives of four to one, and the hostesses never knew where the majority of the feminine stag line came from they suspected the Bronx.
"They had put their faith in government," as one contemporary reporter said of the farmers, "and government had failed … they reached a point where they could stand the strain no longer and moved toward open rebellion".
staunch and powerful and has stood the strain well.
The latter could not stand the nerve-racking strain, and the German troops were able to push across the river in rubber boats and on rafts.
It was difficult because "relationships with businessmen would tend to be somewhat formal and guarded" and because it was "doubtful" if a woman could stand the "fairly severe strains".
Many men cry when an Olympic athlete steps onto the winners' stand to the strains of a national anthem.
During the seventh-inning stretch last night, the crowd stood as the strains of "God Bless America" wafted through the hazy sky.
