Tennis is one of the most expensive sports to play at an élite level — travel and coaching can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars per year — and Kyrgios's talent strained the family's finances.
There were those who concluded that a politician as canny as Mr. Clinton, one who had exhibited a special talent for navigating the strains of race and social values within his party, knew precisely what he was doing when he asserted that Senator Barack Obama's campaign had "played the race card on me".
As tech becomes the world's hottest subject and one of its few growth sectors, the international borders are straining as talent moves around the globe in search of the best startups and projects.
Track cycling was a triumph of focus, talent and a very British strain of home-made engineering innovation.
Their rising popularity, though, has created greater competition for managers and analysts, a proliferation of new funds and a strain on the talent pool, according to several fund managers and consultants, who described a litany of job-hopping at top funds.
The J. Beez, as the group is informally known, have a rare talent for being inventive without straining.
"Don't worry," he told her, "everything is going to be all right – with George and Victor it's the same talent, only Victor's is strained through a coarser sieve".
Both women depended on Cukor, who was known as a "woman's director," and de Havilland brought her troubles to Hughes, who advised: "Don't worry, everything is going to be all right — with George and Victor, it's the same talent, only Victor's is strained through a coarser sieve".
The recent outpouring of musical talent from Israel represents a different strain of Jewish jazz, one less concerned about connecting with a distant heritage.
"Both have high-paid talent and great offenses but are straining to win this year," says today's article by LA Times staff writers Alex Pham and Bruce Wallace.
