Sentence examples for under strained from inspiring English sources

Bowie's involvement with the original film came about under strained circumstances.

The attack comes at a crucial time, as President Hamid Karzai and US officials, under strained relations, negotiate a future role for foreign forces after Nato troops hand over security to Afghan forces in 2014.

I've used a team of selectors to help in the past, as you need to be very sharp in watching people very closely under strained circumstances.

After more than two years living under strained conditions in the autumn of 1919 Victoria and Kirill left Finland and went to Germany.

The elections were delayed since last September by the promulgation of the new Constitution, which passed three months ago through a referendum held under similarly strained circumstances, with many cities under fire.

"After four years of separation, our bond was not broken, even under extremely strained circumstances," Mr. Goldman said, adding that they played basketball, swam in a pool and looked at family photos from Sean's years in New Jersey.

He communicated through his singing.' It still seems scarcely credible that, under such strained conditions, an album was created that has since come to be regarded as perhaps the greatest work of art to emerge out of the pop tradition.

The following year he and his wife and daughter were forced to relocate to the village of Rechenberg, located then on the outskirts of Nuremberg, where Feuerbach lived out the remainder of his life under severely strained financial circumstances and in increasingly ill health.

From the onset, the medical series has been plagued with off-screen drama with major cast members like Katherine Heigl, T.R. Knight, Isaiah Washington and Chyler Leigh leaving under allegedly strained circumstances. .

It cares for the wounded from both sides, reflecting the fact that under the strained circumstances of war, Union and Confederate sympathizers all over Alexandria must routinely interact in the course of their daily business - with widely varying degrees of ease.

The last time this page considered the question of what should happen to Snowden, we acknowledged that he had performed a public service in revealing the fact that the government, under a strained and secret interpretation of the Patriot Act, was vacuuming up and storing millions of Americans' telephone records.