Sentence examples for strain the cause from inspiring English sources

To their surprise, the 14th-century strain, the cause of the most lethal catastrophe in recorded history, was no more virulent than today's disease.

Most people who've gotten sick across the country have been infected by the H3N2 strain of Influenza A. Schwartz said the strain tends to afflict older people, while the H1N1 strain — the cause of the swine flu pandemic in 2009 — hits kids particularly hard.

As limbs move, the tendons are strained causing the collagen fibers in the extracellular matrices to be strained.

Straining can cause the pressure to increase in the blood vein causing it to swell.

Ethnic strain wasn't the cause.

Scientists believe that the new strain may be the cause of some cases of brain-wasting disease in humans.

The strain causing the surgical outbreak (referred to as the surgical strain) belonged to phage type 75,77,84,85III and had a characteristic ribotype and PFGE pattern.

The applied strain causes the fracture of the grain boundary sliding mechanism, resulting in stress concentration at triple junctions and the formation of the wedge-shaped cracks.

And, of course, Robert Redford has strained every sinew in the cause of self-preservation.

The strain causing the outbreak was L. pneumophila serogroup 1, strain Lens.

Rasko, D. A. et al. Origins of the E. coli strain causing an outbreak of hemolytic-uremic syndrome in Germany.