Strain
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As Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens put it, “the present global order – the liberal rules-based system established in 1945 and expanded after the end of the Cold War – is under unprecedented
strain
.
More example sentences with word strain
She took our order, and then went to the couple in the booth next to us, and she lowered her voice so much, I had to really
strain
to hear what she was saying.
So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.
In the best of times it puts
strain
on our resources.
I gave her medications to relieve the
strain
on her heart.
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