The MI6 team has an undercover officer embedded with the Russians, but can he withstand the strain?
The improvement in relations is so fragile that it may not withstand the strain of potential Western action in Iran.
She expressed confidence that German-United States relations could withstand the strain, but made clear that Berlin expected an honest answer.
Cui's group has experimented with nanostructured forms of silicon, including nanowires, that can withstand the strain of charging and recharging.
The right-hander Ramiro Mendoza is recovering well from his minor shoulder surgery and is expected to be back in time for spring training, but he probably could not withstand the strain of pitching consecutive days on a regular basis, as most setup men are asked to do.
The night before surgery he had been nominated for yet another Grammy, this time for his most recent album, The Living Room Sessions, Part 1. "Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the surgeons and doctors taking care of him, his body was not able to withstand the strain of the surgery.
You have to be a bit nuts, the theory goes, to want to play the position in the first place — to stand in front of the net while people sling hard rubber discs at you at more than 100 miles an hour — and only certain personality types can withstand the strain.
"Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the surgeons and doctors taking care of him, his body was not able to withstand the strain of the surgery," they said.
NCONAs in a vertical array and carbon cloth as the platform for sustaining nanoneedles arrays withstand the strain relaxation and mechanical deformation, preventing the electrode materials from seriously swelling and shrinking during the insertion-deinsertion process of the counter ions[38, 39].
Could a human withstand the strain such exertion would put on a body?
