I've been under a strain...

The rope broke under the strain.

I needn't tell you she's under a strain.

If that's any excuse. YOU under a strain?

This award winning programme of the Agency has been under great strain owing to the severe decline in economic conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 2000.

Sorry, gentlemen. Miss Sherman's been under a great strain.

Tom has been under a great deal of strain lately.

Oh. Well, I've been under something of a nervous strain.

This is the case in Angola, where the delaying tactics of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) are putting a severe strain on the peace process under way.

It's just that I have been under such a strain and now this.

I just don't want to be left alone while I'm under this terrible strain.

We've all been under a strain. Sorry if I said anything I shouldn't have.

The evidence so far has shown that the accused acted under great strain and he was clearly under extreme provocation.

No strain.

But the system for protecting human rights at the international level is today under considerable strain.

In the past three years, ever since you left the bank, you've been under a terrible strain.

Don't strain yourself.

On the one hand, it has given rise to some exceptionally corrupt practices, such as organ trafficking, transplant tourism, and many other ugly phenomena associated with a black market in organs. On the other hand, it has put transplant ethics under severe strain.

I'll strain my back.

Don't strain yourself, Brother.

Don't strain yourself, Duchess.

The strain, you see.

They are a strain.

It's such a strain

We've invited you here because our relationship with you has been under some strain and we'd like to improve it.

This comes at a time when the need for scaling up programmes is putting already weak health systems under increasing strain.

Given the severe strain under which the hospitalization programme was operating, any further cost containment measures would probably endanger the lives of needy refugees, particularly in Lebanon, while threatening the sustainability of some non governmental organization hospitals that depended on contracts with UNRWA, such as Augusta Victoria Hospital at Jerusalem.

The doctor said to avoid all strain!

Be careful, it's heavy. Don't strain anything.

Gold can't take much strain, you know.

That 's the Welsh strain in 'im.

Three shifts are a strain. I know.

Many of the suspects are in less developed countries where judicial systems are under strain arising from the prosecution of their own accused.

Many of the suspects are in less developed countries where judicial systems are under strain arising from the prosecution of their own accused.

31. It should be borne in mind that total world ODA is diminishing, and resources for United Nations bodies are under special strain.

Under the current Penal Code, both crimes were punishable by the most severe penalties.

This relationship, however, is not always without strain.

Don't you get eye strain reading law books?

No strain, is it? The posing, I mean.

Wouldn't it be a terrible strain for you?

A natural life without any strain or pressure.

So the next time you get dengue fever, if it's a different strain, you're more susceptible, you're likely to get worse symptoms, and you're more likely to get the more severe forms, hemorrhagic fever or shock syndrome.

However, the Committee notes that, as recognized by the State party, the social services are under a tremendous resource strain, in particular the health service.

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Think of the strain involved by his prodigious feat.