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Relations with Japan were strained by old kidnappings and new suspicions of spying.

More recently, Britain's relations with Tehran were strained by the confrontation over the author Salman Rushdie.

Both the Giants and the Jets rejected the notion that relations were strained by the issue.

See articleRelations between Russia and NATO member Norway were strained by a naval incident.

Even before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, the budgetary prospects for domestic initiatives were strained by the economic downturn and the Bush administration's $1.35 trillion tax cut.

It is mournful but solid, even defiant, and the chorus sang it with moving integrity, though the sopranos were strained by the high tessitura.

But several disclosures indicate that their relationship is being strained by the tire recall.

But these advances have been strained by this year's surge.

Its feeble economy is strained by 100,000 newly arrived Ivorians.

The marriage of a professional couple is strained by their having to live a continent apart.

Their safety nets are strained by newly unemployed people unfamiliar with the world of social services.