Sentence examples for was strained in from inspiring English sources

It's no secret that your relationship with Summitt was strained in recent years and that she wouldn't play UConn.

Similar scenes repeated themselves at Saddam General Hospital, where the emergency room was strained in the afternoon with roughly 50 trauma patients.

Even when Mrs. Bachmann was riding high in the polls, her relationship with the press was strained, in particular over coverage of the Christian counseling practice of her husband, Marcus.

The two had been close early in their careers, and though the relationship was strained in 2001 after Rodriguez criticized Jeter in a magazine interview, the two filmed a commercial together this off-season.

My parents' marriage was strained in those years, and something in me figured that if we had a location change — a bigger house with more than one bathroom, a separate guest bedroom where one of them could cool off, a structure where there was more silence and privacy — then somehow our family would not be in danger of falling apart.

The thinner sample (gray curve) was fully unloaded after straining to 3% plastic strain, while the thicker one was strained in a single experiment.

Ties between Berlin and Moscow have been strained in recent months by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The Bush administration's relations with the Saudis have been strained in recent months.

"Externally, it's also helpful in rebuilding some of the relationships that were strained in the dispute over going in".

His daughter Maureen has been undergoing cancer treatment, and relations with the other children have been strained in the past.

On Friday, Mr. Brown and Mr. Sarkozy — whose relations have been strained in recent weeks —held a joint news conference.