Sentence examples for worker strain from inspiring English sources

Though its conclusion is too tidily therapeutic, and though elements of its story (especially Ms. Pompeo's sad, waifish postal worker) strain credibility, "Moonlight Mile" has an understated, lived-in quality and a wry, unforced sense of the absurd.

For example, in response to a potential increase in worker strain due to a new national reform, one municipal representative stated that checklists introduced in the new work program would ensure that the HCWs felt safe in their professional role when facing increased challenges in their work.

But such "esthetic" photographs are rare here; the library has stressed the work of artists who deal more tellingly with people, like Beuford Smith's 1965 close-up of a midtown garment worker straining to push a rack of clothes.

The health worker strains to hear.

Hiring a full-time worker strains your HR department (if you even have a HR department).

Shirtless workers strain in the hot August sun.

But the Metropolitan Transportation Authority cautioned that service would probably remain snarled "well into the coming week," as investigators try to determine the cause of the derailment that led to the crash during the Friday evening rush, and workers strain to reconstruct a stretch of rail corridor effectively from scratch.

Still others have their roots in a virulently anti-sex-worker strain of feminism.

And while emergency workers strained to do what they could, in at least one case, it was not enough.

"They were so overwhelmed," he said of the workers straining to contain the disaster, that they were unable to maintain enough water in the pool to prevent boiling.

Mr. Jezycki said many workers, straining to repair this station and other corners of the system, had not been home since Sunday.