When historians pore over how this Coalition survived for five strained years (as we must presume it will), they could do worse than study the MP for Northavon.
With the education maintenance allowance abolished in England, it might seem like a cruel joke to tantalise impoverished 16-year-olds with thoughts of university, two financially strained years away.
A 2009 Associated Press/Gfk poll found that just 8% of Americans took a vacation trip in another country that economically-strained year, while 33% vacationed in the States, and 58% didn't take a vacation trip.
Mr. Weaver, a 40-year-old construction manager, had almost given up on dating after a two-year marriage and a strained six-year relationship with a mother of three, which ended when she left him "for a younger man who liked to dance".
Given his history of diplomacy (a strained two years at Marks & Spencer notwithstanding), Burns is expected to take a pragmatic approach.
For many people, Father's Day is a holiday that re-opens the wounds of strained relationships, years of abuse, and even total absence.
While many Hong Kongers have some degree of pride in being part of the China success story, the territory's relationship with the mainland has become more strained in recent years.
Osborne and Duncan Smith have had a strained relationship for years and in 2013 Osborne was forced to deny a claim in a book about the coalition that he thought the work and pensions secretary was "just not clever enough".
The social network's relationship with developers had become strained, though, after years of whiplash product and API changes.
In recent years strained silicon has drawn increasing attention to enlarge carrier mobility in the MOSFET channel.
Warehouse fulfillment has become increasingly strained in recent years, due to expectations from companies like Amazon, opening a space for robotics companies to address fast-paced but repetitive jobs like moving product onto and off of conveyor belts.
