Strain
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Atiku's huge influence balances the perceived Christian-millenarian
strain
of Obasanjo's presidency.
Instability places enormous
strain
on national budgets.
Facing economic crisis, widespread unemployment, and rising competition from developing economies, Europe must adjust to technological advances and new modes of working – all while an aging population puts increasing
strain
on exhausted public budgets.
Even without sanctions, the Iranian economy would have been under severe
strain.
Yet freedom of speech in the West is under
strain.
Meanwhile, the asylum system – another traditional method of assisting the needy – is coming under
strain.
Health-care costs will rise, increasing the
strain
on budgets.
This strategy’s long-term sustainability is dubious, owing to the
strain
that it will put on Russia’s public finances.
The resulting fiscal
strain
has forced Iran to slash some of the lavish subsidies that have long buttressed the regime’s popular support.
The
strain
of trying to meet this impossible standard of cool curiosity about one’s own fate imposes an unbearable distance between the scientist of the body and mind, and the body and mind of the scientist.
Under this strain, medical research scientists are susceptible to the dream that their instruments and procedures have somehow freed them from the limitations of their minds and bodies.
Coordination between the central and local governments has always been a source of
strain
especially, and the clock is ticking down to the next election.
Citizens’ voluntary financing of their countries’ national debt would be the most effective means of reducing
strain
on Europe’s financial resources, while simultaneously serving as a powerful symbol of solidarity.
A decisive European policy will improve, rather than strain, relations with Russia, because it will result in more clarity and predictability.
But this cannot excuse an ugly
strain
of English nationalism, whipped up by Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party and cynically exploited by the Conservative Party’s Brexiteers, led by former London Mayor Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the justice secretary in Prime Minister David Cameron’s cabinet.
As in Japan, America’s subpar recovery has been largely unresponsive to the Fed’s aggressive
strain
of unconventional stimulus – zero interest rates, three doses of balance-sheet expansion (QE1, QE2, and QE3), and a yield curve twist operation that seems to be the antecedent of the BOJ’s latest move.
Public spending on infrastructure has plummeted in Europe and the United States since the 1960s; and, with public budgets under strain, it is unlikely to recover.
Russia’s economy is under severe
strain
as a result of the sanctions imposed by the West over Crimea.
The countries on the front line of the refugee crisis face serious economic
strain.
But exchange-rate appreciation put great
strain
on the export industries that were central to these countries’ economic performance; and both countries tried desperately to avoid becoming reserve currencies.
This will put serious
strain
on public budgets.
When the United States initiated wars on both the Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan and the Sunni Iraqi regime, this new radical Sunni
strain
became even more emboldened.
Nor does the ECB have reason to be gratified with its
strain
of quantitative easing.
For decades, the Saudis have been using the money we pay them for oil to indoctrinate their population with a fundamentalist
strain
of Islam.
Donald Trump Thought is easy to understand and requires little intellectual
strain
to master.
European leaders, even when they are unhappy over US positions, therefore need to combine forceful support for the transatlantic community of interests with discrete, if firm lobbying in Washington not to
strain
it to the breaking point.
Hard Truths about Bird FluThe issues surrounding the possibility of a pandemic of the H5N1
strain
of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing medicine, epidemiology, virology, and even politics and ethics.
To be sure, good surveillance is needed in order to obtain early warning that a
strain
of H5N1 flu transmissible between humans has been detected, so that nations around the world can rapidly initiate a variety of public health measures, including a program to produce large amounts of vaccine against that
strain.
In theory, it is possible to contain a flu pandemic in its early stages by performing “ring prophylaxis” – using anti-flu drugs and quarantine aggressively to isolate relatively small outbreaks of a human-to-human transmissible
strain
of H5N1.
In places like Vietnam, Indonesia, and China – where the pandemic
strain
will likely originate – expertise, coordination, discipline, and infrastructure are lacking.
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