For example, one strain may fight against cavity-causing organisms in our mouths and don't need to survive a trip through our guts.
Established giants such as Nielsen and Mintel strain to fight off upstarts and niche players such as William Higham of Next Big Thing and Faith Popcorn.Consumer-watchers of all sizes have several things in common.
The military itself, straining to fight two wars, groaned under burdens it had not intended to take on.
The assessment is partly a reflection of how a military straining to fight two wars is questioning whether it makes sense to keep in place the costly system of protections established after those attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Iraq was also the place where the United States – straining to fight a second Middle East war with the first one far from finished – began to outsource national security on a scale without precedent.
The election followed an interminable campaign waged by two Democratic City Hall insiders, neither of whom strained to fight the widespread perception that there was little to choose between them.
Following the intimate lives of three married couples from different religious and ethnic backgrounds in India for many years, Flock writes of exchanged love letters, sexual embarrassments, financial strains, family fights, and gradual distancings.
The strain of the fight had shaded into a desire for simplicity and order, an almost pleasant teariness.
His marriage crumbled under the strain of his fight, and he moved to a cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains.
Doctors often use air injections to fight TB strains that resist the most commonly used drugs.
