Strain
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Facing the Four Structural Threats to US DemocracyBERKELEY – It has been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and America’s democratic institutions are clearly under
strain
.
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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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