Awaits when you will strain ears.

The liquid does not strain well.

Globalization is under strain as never before.

But there must be no softening of the criteria for joining the euro.

On Thursday, data showed continued export weakness, and a softening in consumer demand.

Levin was already wearied by the mental strain.

The chosen tools may sometimes strain our liberal temperament.

France has banned a strain of genetically modified maize.

I don't think this chain will stand the strain.

You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

Despite a softening economy, British Prime Minister David Cameron is promising to stay the austerity course.

The Russian strain of political messianism is pretty much exhausted.

Health care costs will rise, increasing the strain on budgets.

Assists in the prevention and recovery of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

Strain the cooked okra, and pour onto the shrimp (5 min).

Many of these had contributed to a softening in China's economy by routinely lending money to insolvent corporations.

China s vast influence over a few fellow dictatorships still holds out the best hope of softening their misrule.

But he talked to them only with the idea of getting them to agree and softening their controversy.

Atiku's huge influence balances the perceived Christian millenarian strain of Obasanjo's presidency.

For example, refugees leaving Sudan can strain the stability of neighboring Chad.

Population pressures will ease, as will the strain on fragile tropical ecosystems.

Our celebrated welfare state will come under strain from an aging population.

Pressurized below shows the strain Nepalis were living under during the blockade.

Such a softening of the church's position was probably the result of the public outcry in Russia's liberal press.

To what extent the EU can take this strain, only time will tell.

The competitive strain in Sino Japanese relations is especially visible in energy politics.

The immense response by central banks and finance ministries has eased the strain.

Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.

With global financial markets in crisis and Europe s economy softening, the challenges for the new Italian government will only become greater.

It is a strain to think that governments have the same motivations as private citizens.

BERLIN When placed under too much strain, chains tend to break at the weakest link.

And experts worry that the novel H1N1 virus could mutate into a more severe strain.

NOTES Tigers RHP Anibal Sanchez was shut down with a strain in his throwing shoulder.

If Mexico were to enter war against the U.S. it would strain relations with those nations.

The strain on Syria s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider region.

The Austrian school is a very minority strain even in academia , he says. Who are those libertarians?

Oblonsky, without hearing him to the end, put his hand in a kindly way on the Secretary's sleeve and, softening his remark with a smile, said

To pay back the debt without strain, we need a booming economy. Talk of government spending cuts is premature.

This will put pressure on the rural economy and place more strain on areas already grappling with meagre resources.

But the minutes went by, and the hours, and other hours, and his suffering and terror and strain grew tenser.

Relations between the US and Germany have come under strain following claims that the NSA bugged Chancellor Angela's Merkel's phone.

India s media sphere exploded last week with reports from Mumbai of a tuberculosis strain completely resistant to all known treatment.

John Kerry has indicated a softening of the U.S's defensive stance on its surveillance programmes with an unprecedented admission that on occasions its spying has reached too far inappropriately.

A decisive European policy will improve, rather than strain, relations with Russia, because it will result in more clarity and predictability.

In places like Vietnam, Indonesia, and China where the pandemic strain will likely originate expertise, coordination, discipline, and infrastructure are lacking.