Trucking executives say the Fréjus is already strained to its limits, because it absorbed most of the traffic from Mont Blanc.
But transportation experts say it is strained to its limits.
In return, you agree not to undermine that protection, and to preserve the system as it is.Recently, however, this deal has been strained to its limits.
Language is strained to its limits.
But there are no quick fixes for a system strained to its limits by the estimated 178 million passengers who will have boarded an aircraft this summer in the United States.
Created by the United Nations in 1948 to coordinate international health efforts, the W.H.O. had been hobbled by recessionary cutbacks and was strained to its limits by concurrent emergencies and outbreaks: the MERS virus in Saudi Arabia, a new avian influenza A strain in China, polio in war-torn Syria, conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
All this is unfolding in a country that has become strained to its limits, with worsening public services, inflation so high that most locals rely on remittences from relatives living abroad, and an unemployment rate so high that you hardly meet a young Lebanese not looking to emigrate.
At a time when the nation's air traffic system is strained to its very limits, it is a question gaining added urgency.
"The institutional review board system is really strained almost to its limit," Dr. Walters said, adding that without money to help with "high quality research review," today's announcement "may feel to local institutions like it's the whip being cracked once again".
The country, with a population of 240 million, suffers from corruption, its bureaucracy is inefficient, and — most important, economists say — its infrastructure is strained to the limit.
Designing and building a 30-mile-long road tunnel would strain technology to its limits, said Wolfgang H. Roth, the principal engineer and a vice president at the URS Corporation, a global engineering company.
