Sentences with phrase «under the strain of»

What that really means is, over time your carefully constructed persona will crack under the strain of reality.

But that often just means a jury - rigged spreadsheet that struggles under the strain of a growing startup.

The Army is still coming out from under the strain of a lengthy deployment in Afghanistan, which severely stretched its capabilities.

Cash flow shortages are usually not a problem for large companies with unlimited cash reserves but small and medium - sized companies can suffer under the strain of cash shortages.

Trying to shape those who have had these experiences into a coherent Christian community is harder still, and more than one congregation has thundered and sunk under the strain of sorting out the personal and the corporate.

If this comes to pass — if we lose our capitalism and our freedom because we could not (or would not) make it work for the benefit of all, because it collapsed under the strain of class division and materialism and unrestrained selfishness — then we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

Under the strain of...

Under the strain of trying to cope with Sam, the family began to disintegrate.

«Are you frustrated, bewildered, dejected, breaking under the strains of life?»

There is a good reason for my reticence to Spiralize: all of the hand - held and counter-top spiralizers I've previously tested / used / experimented with simply don't deliver: they crack under the strain of hard, dense vegetables; they hurt my hand and wrist to operate; and some models are a huge pain when it comes to clean up.

Our club will keep getting stronger and these big clubs will start cracking under the strain of excess wages.

My deflated uterus contracted under the strain of the baby's car seat; I braced myself against the car to keep from slipping on the icy ground.

What if a new child demanded so much of me that their older siblings fell by the wayside, and the relationship I had built with them fractured under the strain of their perceived abandonment?

«This will exert yet more pressure on a jobs market that is buckling under the strains of contractions in economic growth and public sector employment.

One shadow minister privately predicts 2016 will be the year when councils finally break under the strain of the remorseless spending cuts being imposed from Whitehall.

Twitter is creaking under the strain of all the excitement.

Lord Adonis is calling for the resignation of transport secretary Chris Grayling for using hundreds of millions in taxpayers» money to bail out private rail companies — a decision which the former government infrastructure tsar says is symptomatic of a government that has «broken down» under the strain of Brexit.

A hardening of antivaccine attitudes, mixed with the despair experienced by families living under the strain of autism, has heightened the debate — sometimes leading to blowback against scientific researchers.

So I was shocked to find out at 36 weeks that the divide had already happened to me, under the strain of the growing baby against the abdominal wall.

More than a few relationships have found themselves under the strain of a bad job and while it can happen to anyone geeks are less likely to bring that to a relationship.

He rises to tremendous heights in his portrayal of this ace of aviators, slowly breaking under the strain of being the model of bravery by which young boys are spurred on to their destruction.

Storytelling in video games can be a hit or miss endeavor, with the best games nailing the basic tenets of good narrative, and the subpar games dying under the strain of too much exposition.

Among the other characters are a costumer who finds Maggie sexually tempting and yet another cranky old director who's poised to take over the project when the current filmmaker breaks down under the strains of his job.

However, that being said, her stint here is a show - stealing phenomenon of a performance, as the fractured woman breaking apart under the strain of her own life.

There is enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that relationships can break down under the strain of postgraduate study.

Over the next ten years, as their host country confronts fundamental change of its own, their marriage buckles under the strain of their disparate experiences.

Its creaking and groaning under the strain of what RIM is asking it to do.

Maybe students get a benefit, but then would the entire state higher ed system buckle under the strains of the program infrastructure.

And we're not even talking massively multiplayer yet - we're talking servers struggling under the strain of 50 people.

Best I could tell, my desktop PC was simply chugging under the strain of running and encoding the games.

Stardew Valley, Golf Story, Overcooked — I don't need to list them all, there's a list for that — all vying for a position — for visibility — on a machine that isn't yet breaking under the strain of five triple - A releases per week.

Although Thek died depressed, medically neglected, critically abandoned, and under the strain of severe poverty, his ascetic / messianic approach to life and art was a true new religion of pain and pleasure, which revealed spirit, and reconciled art and religion.

Kusama's is a wonderful behind - the - music story, the outsider with destiny in her sights, who moves to the big city to prove herself, then collapses under the strain of striving, only to stage a comeback, bigger than ever.

After all, the signals have been clear enough — signals that the ecological system that supports human society is hitting its limits, groaning under the strain of an economy simply too big for the planet.

It was ridiculed, but there was some weight to the prediction that Facebook may struggle under the strain of not being cool anymore, plus its privacy issues.

Trying to solve complex marital problems under the strain of living every day with the other person can make it harder to view the marriage issues objectively.

Unfortunately, if couples do not know how to maintain their love for one another, especially under the strains of everyday life, it may disappear completely.

In a recent study of newlyweds who became first - time parents, Gottman found that two - thirds suffered sharp drops in happiness during their child's infancy, under the strain of new parenthood.

The metro area is touting an impressive vacancy rate and effective rents that have largely held up under the strain of the economic recession.

It also meant it would not bow under the strain of the weight and bend.

Not exact matches

In the Oval Office, Trump and the crown prince lauded the strength of U.S. - Saudi ties, which had grown strained under...

Small business owners and entrepreneurs still suffer under - funding as the markets strain under the past indulgences of the easy money boom.

While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

Other problems loom globally: The Ivory Coast, center of world cocoa production, is under strain from drought — putting the world's chocolate industry at risk.

Or is your workplace straining under the weight of too much «déjà moo» - the weird, eerie feeling you've heard this bull before?

Shares in the company were once again sliding on Monday after the company's C.E.O., Elon Musk, joked on April 1 that Tesla had gone bankrupt, an apparent attempt to make light of concerns that the electric car maker is straining under its debt load.

What happens in a command economy such as China's is that the element of free social conflict that market capitalism contains is absolutely missing - and that therefore the Chinese economy must sooner rather than later collapse under the strain and burden of «unproductive» investment.

Make too little, which is under $ 79,500 based on existing rates, and you will feel the strain of the mortgage payments.

There can be no other explanation for how Puerto Rico has fared under the administration of #FakePresident Trump other than the virulent strain of racism he glorifies.

By the same token, the Civil War inflation did not stem from the fact that the government itself issued greenbacks, but that the credit had to be issued at all under the economic strains of war.