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The relationship was further strained by Mr. Fox's opposition to the war with Iraq.

By 2003, the Whites had begun marital counseling; their marriage was further strained by the terminal illness of one of Randy's daughters and Paula's son's involvement with drugs.

However, Fayed's relationship with the establishment was further strained by his involvement in the "cash-for-questions" scandal that arose in 1994 after Fayed named ministers who had accepted money from him in return for tabling parliamentary questions on his behalf.

Her father, Albert, was an itinerant peddler descended from peasants and tavern keepers, and her mother, Jeanne, was a seamstress with a fragile constitution that was further strained by a vagabond's life, a faithless husband of incorrigible charm, and the birth of six children.

The planning for corrective surgery was further strained by the presence of an ipsilateral ankle arthrodesis in this patient (Fig. 2).

That relationship was further strained this weekend after the shooting deaths of four police officers by Lovelle Mixon, a 26-year-old parolee with an outstanding warrant for his arrest.

Relations have been further strained by the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

The tensions are likely to be further strained when the coalition attempts to roll out radical economic and social reforms.

US-German relations have been further strained by two allegations of American spying on the German government.

Unless younger evangelicals radically increase their giving, the movement will be further strained.

Resources are further strained by a sharp rise in estate tax returns, which are expected to grow by a third in the next four years.