Sentence examples for strained somewhat from inspiring English sources

Ties were strained somewhat under the previous Democratic Party (DPJ) administration amid a row over the relocation of a US military base in Okinawa.

US-Japan ties were strained somewhat under the previous Japanese Democratic Party (DPJ) administration amid a row over the relocation of a US military base in Okinawa.

Straining somewhat for a pompous affect, Mr. Converse seems uncomfortable as George's harrumphing father, and Ms. Curtin provides a shrillness that feels like a holdover from her "Saturday Night Live" days; judging by her accent, which might derive from anywhere except New Hampshire, her Mrs. Webb must be from out of town.

In all the tests carried out, the premature debonding of the SS strip was observed at a strain somewhat lower than its rupture value.

Kant strains somewhat to explain how the mathematician constructs arithmetic and algebraic magnitudes, which are distinct from the spatial figures that are the object of geometric reasoning.

Our data reveal that a previous blood meal and/or aging in An. gambiae significantly decreases tolerance to IVM in a susceptible strain, somewhat contrary to studies using classical insecticides.

Straining credulity somewhat are the lovely Apartment 3F of "Collected Stories" — almost certainly a rent-controlled gold mine for the Steiner character, given her writer's income — and the enormous mansion of "The Addams Family" musical, which is set in the middle of Central Park.

But the Russian connection seems somewhat strained.

But even here the design seems somewhat strained.

Still, she said, the first few months after her arrival last year were somewhat strained.

The relationship between the two seems to have been somewhat strained by Lazarides's ongoing promotion of his former talent's work.