But the Lakers realize that under such strain, Bryant cannot be counted on to turn in a superstar performance.
Such strain hardening can double or triple the yield stress of a metal.
News that Simon Stevens originally asked the Treasury for £16bn goes some way to explaining why the NHS is under such strain.
Prussia's best commander, the elderly Bl?r, was under such strain that at one point he started hallucinating about giving birth to an elephant.
Just before Mr Milosevic died, one top Serbian official said that the government was under such strain, trying to cope with so many difficult issues at once and with such little room for manoeuvre, that one could "hear the cracks".
Dr Mark Porter, the leader of the British Medical Association BMAA), said hospitals were under such strain that some patients who have been waiting weeks or even months for surgery are having it cancelled just before they are taken into theatre.
In normal times, when an active four-star general implies in public that the Army is under such strain that it might flounder if an unexpected war broke out, or might require a draft to muster adequate troop levels, he could expect to provoke concern and comment from, say, the President of the United States.
Such strain localisation increased with increasing deformation.
Such strain field enhanced dome formation even at low temperature (<500 °C).
But practices are under such strain I don't think they have time to do that at the moment," she said.
Further analysis of the atomic scale contact area was conducted to clarify the mechanism of such strain dependence.
