Sentence examples for was so strained from inspiring English sources

By September, party insiders said, Mr. Hu was so strained by the Ling affair and the leadership negotiations that he seemed resigned to yielding power.

The atmosphere was so strained by the walkout of the Shiite members that L. Paul Bremer III, the chief American administrator here, summoned the entire Governing Council to his residence for dinner to help ease the tension.

In New York over the last few days the texture of daily routine was so strained that many New Yorkers were put on edge simply because the clear, late summer weather reminded them of last September.

The Clinton-Obama article followed a series of inaccurate or hard-to-verify articles on Insight and its predecessor magazine about politics, the Iraq war or the Bush administration, including a widely discussed report on the Insight Web site that President Bush's relationship with his father was so strained that they were no longer speaking to each other about politics.

On one email two weeks before the company collapsed, for example, a treasury official told Steenkamp that liquidity was so strained that the broker-dealer would be relying upon a $16 million buffer in customer accounts.

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Relations are so strained that the 13-member board ordered an internal review of its practices.

That's probably why trade relations are so strained between our countries.

The bond prospectus offers an unusually detailed history of how Illinois's pension system came to be so strained.

Commanders in Afghanistan would like even more troops, but that is unlikely because the American military is so strained by current deployments there and in Iraq, officials said.

Relations have been so strained that one player allegedly belittled Lee in front of the squad by telling him his opinion was worthless.