The rope broke under the strain.

Tom has been under a great deal of strain lately.

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

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.

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.

This relationship, however, is not always without strain.

Relations may come under further strain as a set of contentious issues, the details of which were not always agreed to in Naivasha, will need to be resolved.

Now, however, with China rising, global power rebalancing, and the US worn down by two decade long wars that have eroded its credibility, the postwar international order is under intense strain.

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The bilateral relationship with the United States is also under strain. President Barack Obama and Erdoğan rarely speak with one another anymore, whereas Obama once considered Erdoğan among his favorite world leaders.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

We realize that reporting can be a strain on already limited administrative resources.

So that's why every year you can catch a slightly different strain of flu.

However, given the vastness of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the expanded role which the Security Council had decided to give MONUC, the resources and capacity of MONUC had been placed under considerable strain.

This year's swine flu strain grew very poorly in early production basically .6 doses per egg.

Here are stress strain curves generated by tensile testing five fibers made by the same spider.

But what is the matter with the unbelievers, that they strain their glances continuously towards them,

But what is the matter with the unbelievers, that they strain their glances continuously towards them,

By August 30th, a genetic test was done, and we knew what strain of polio Shriram had.

A number of critical issues were placing a great strain on the fragile situation on the ground.

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.

The system is reliable but the problem is you never know how well a strain is going to grow.

All of these challenges are putting a strain on the capacity of the State to accomplish its mission effectively.

That has put a tremendous strain on our roads, which has been exacerbated by high rainfall, flooding and landslides.

The continued high prices of food could strain the already low purchasing power of the chronically food insecure population.

(So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every side,

(So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every side,

In situations where developing States had hosted large numbers of refugees for many years, longstanding generosity sometimes showed signs of strain.

First, the strain of cases on the ordinary courts was eased with the commencement of Gacaca community trials earlier this year.

As France shuns NATO as the centerpiece of an international response to the Islamic State, Turkey s zero tolerance approach to encroachments on its airspace has put NATO Russian relations under dangerous strain. It is in easing those tensions that the EU has an important role to play.

The attention given to the issue in the Doha Plan of Action was welcome given that the Caribbean economies were under particular strain, caught between withdrawal of the preferences from which they had previously benefited on the one hand and increased trade liberalization on the other.

You could see an avian strain that would infect the poultry flocks, and then we would have no eggs for our vaccines.

We need rapid diagnostics so that we can tell if somebody has a strain of flu which we have only identified very recently.

I say we're going to take a long lived strain of mouse, which basically means mice that live about three years on average.

At the same time, many oil exporters are being forced to scale back expenditure plans in the face of sharply falling revenues. Even Saudi Arabia, despite its vast oil and financial reserves, has come under strain, owing to a rapidly rising population and higher military spending associated with conflicts in the Middle East.

Mr. Petersen (Norway) said that, with the Treaty under serious strain and with new challenges to face, the necessary compromises must be made to ensure that the Review Conference produced a strengthened non proliferation regime, building on the previous Review Conferences and reaffirming an undertaking to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.

LG Um yeah. So we don't actually know what the lethality was of the 1918 strain to wild birds before it jumped from birds to humans.

The strain on Syria s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider region. Both government and rebel forces have committed atrocity crimes.

In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others. For example, refugees leaving Sudan can strain the stability of neighboring Chad.

Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers.

Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers.