Strained in example sentence

How can a meeting be convened in 2012, as stipulated by the 2010 NPT conference’s final document, “on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at by the states of the region,” when many of those states are in turmoil, inter-state relations are strained, and the threat of conflict is mounting?

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Brotherly tempers started to get strained.

So we strained it from the edges, and we held it by cables.

At some point, in one of our strained conversations, my dad mentioned the Stonewall riots.

At the Phi Phi Hill Resort, I was tucked into the corner furthest away from the television, but I strained to listen for information.

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