Sentence examples for strained lines from inspiring English sources

Then she was sold, say the press releases, to become a floating hotel, permanently tied (with strained lines, I imagine) to a tourist dock in Dubai.

The Ottoman armies were under strength, overstretched, "haemorrhaging" deserters, suffering greatly from strained lines of communication, and were overwhelmingly outnumbered by a factor of two to one, by the EEF.

With the remaining grid in northern Ohio becoming more strained, three more 345-kilovolt lines in the area failed, at 3 41, 3 46 and 4 06 p.m.

For British Somalis, it is hard to ignore the late-night call that comes over a strained international line, pleading for the most basic of necessities.

Fully strained and relaxed lines are also shown.

On issues like Iraq, Iran's strained links with the European Union over nukes, and the extent to which "unIslamic" social mores can be rolled back, he takes a hard line.

In order to have a better understanding of the strained system, in-plane strain distribution of InGaAs SBL is shown in Fig. 4 (the cross section position is marked by the dash-dot line in the inset of Fig. 3), and the strain distribution scan on the dashed line is also shown.

V-shaped STS spectra showed spatially-varying slopes at lines across the strained ridges, whereas they showed constant slopes at lines along the long directions of ridges.