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Example sentences for: strained

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Moreover, the fighting in Afghanistan made Pakistan home to an enormous-and generally unwelcome-population of Afghan refugees; and since the badly strained Pakistani education system could not accommodate the refugees, the government increasingly let privately funded religious schools serve as a cost-free alternative.
Already strained to the breaking point, this cut will devastate the civil equal justice delivery system in our state.
The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained.
Intel's strained effort to please makes the whole cute-machine thing slightly painful, but Culturebox predicts that cute is more than a passing fad in industrial design.
Mardi gras ( Renealmia alpinia ) is used to bathe dogs who have strained a limb.