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She fires off the cleanest and most articulated runs without a trace of strain or unwanted aspirates.
The strain of looking at him hurts so I turn my eyes in an easier direction, doubt assailing me.
Once I had explained the situation to him, speaking with only a small strain in my voice, Deron named a place that we could meet.
Warm up the stock over a gentle heat, so it liquifies completely, then strain it carefully through muslin or a cotton cloth.
In addition to posing a strain on relationships, it can also indicate a possibly dangerous and life-threatening disease.
At that time, strain the tepache back into the container, add 4 cups of pure water, and allow to set for 8 hours.
The only condition where decrepitation might take place is in the low temperature, high strain metamorphic environment.
Concise text would reduce strain on military communications and greatly speed the assimilation of information.
The braces were instrumented with strain gauges on the medial support bracket to allow determination of the brace loads during walking.
Decant the clear juice without disturbing the sediment and strain it through a muslin cloth.
Depending on the strain of virus and how it reacts, post-mortem findings are very variable.
Because multiprocessor servers put a larger strain on the memory subsystem, increased amounts of on-chip cache can help alleviate that load.
Quietly, but determinedly, she began to strum the low, bass notes of the guitar, its deep strain sounding in the empty silence.
I'm afraid my piece has reinforced a widespread, and in my opinion, wrongheaded anti-intellectual strain in design.
Each patient's brace was instrumented with strain gauges on the day of testing and bench-calibrated just before testing by using known loads.
Such restrictions mean that potable water is not available for other uses, placing additional strain on the remaining sources.
The researcher used a fine sieve to strain out remains of insects and small mammals from several sites.
Using cheesecloth or a sieve, strain the ghee into a glass jar with a tight lid.
I'd imagine this directly kills dozens of people every year who get the dosage wrong or misjudge the breaking strain of a rope.
This strain was resistant to methicillin, cephalothin, gentamicin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline.
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Chinese health officials say that the strain is extremely virulent and killed one farmer in as little as two hours.
I could feel the strain of her effort to be gentle, like I was going to break into pieces any minute.
The fear is that human and bird flu virus could mix in pigs and form a strain more easily transmittable to humans.
We found that this strain is viable on glucose medium but inviable on raffinose medium at elevated temperatures.
Now beat and strain the eggs, work these up with the other ingredients, and the forcemeat will be ready for use.
Steep the rice vermicelli noodles in boiling hot water for five minutes, remove, strain and set aside.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral infection caused by a strain of Coxsackie virus.
First, the EU's creaking institutions will be under severe strain as they try to deal with the sudden intake.
In contrast, the strain containing only that particular gene was viable on synthetic medium but inviable on rich medium.
Police sources told the Evening Press the ten-year-old system was creaking under the strain as aging equipment fails.
Our old format was creaking under the strain of multiple postings every day.
It may creak a little under the strain of me getting into it each night, but other than that, it's a silent bed.
It would strain anyone's therapeutic credulity to believe that Audrey needed no further help.
Because it is a rheological boundary, and rheological properties depend, inter alia, on strain rate, the thickness also depends on strain rate.
If a strain proved unpredictably freakish, then we could be months into a pandemic before a vaccine was available.
What we need to do is identify the proteins in this strain that cause this cross reaction.
But, he said, initial teacher training and in-service training should include advice and help on limiting voice strain problems.
The aircraft was specially instrumented with several hundred strain gauges, which recorded data at a given load.
I have bad knees, and the frog kick from breast stroke is torture, I literally feel the strain on the knees.
Add almost all of the remaining berries and strain the fruit, keeping all the juices.
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The mutant did not exhibit any visible sign of fruiting although the parental strain formed fertile fruit bodies constitutively.
Never do any bouncing or jerky motions or you could strain or tear muscles, ligaments or tendons.
Supports relieve excessive pressure and foot strain by distributing body weight across the feet and by cushioning the impact of walking, he says.
He says that you pour the gin and vermouth over ice in a chilled shaker, then mix and strain quickly into a chilled martini glass.
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake very well and strain into a chilled, white sugar-rimmed Martini glass.
When these steels are nitrided the aluminum forms AlN particles, which strain the ferrite lattice and create strengthening dislocations.
Each genotype was crossed with the haploid strain isogenic to its own ancestor but of the opposite mating type.
The simplest compound is cyclopropane, but its non-tetrahedral bond angles within the ring severely strain it, and it is very unstable.
Their absence is adequately compensated by men and women, who strain every nerve to attract the attention of the audience.
Maintaining good posture and stretching your hip flexors and hamstrings will help keep the strain off your lower back.
Having a topic of conversation banned must be a particular strain for someone as garrulous as him.
The infection was similar to the strain of viral gastro-enteritis which hit the hospital two years ago.
Combine vanilla and butterscotch schnapps over ice and strain into a Martini glass.
More than a third of the population suffer from a virulent strain of malaria, so consult your doctor about effective prophylactics.
Sometimes his structures would be clear in a spoken form, but strain the capacities of punctuation in the absence of prosody.
The widely publicised fear is that this strain of avian flu might somehow mutate into one that could spread from human to human.
She felt like she had a back strain or pulled ligament in her right side above her hip.
When strain is put on the knee, the muscles around the kneecap can be pulled.
This is by no means uncommon to spinners who bowl googlies with a high arm action as it puts considerable strain on the shoulder.
The height was good being only 11 mm from the desktop to the surface which would keep wrist strain at a minimum.
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Two million Zimbabwean exiles, refugees, and economic migrants put a strain on the South African economy.
Tip any juices that have flowed out of the chicken into the gravy, then strain into a warm jug or gravy boat.
The UK government's refusal to recognise repetitive strain injury as a disease, suggested Martin Wilson of Glasgow, denied people financial help.
David Mackenzie said the courts were groaning under the strain of dealing with hundreds of minor offences over the past fortnight.
The alcohol ban is a strain on my mum, she likes a bit of a drink, but my dad's teetotal.
Congested airports are putting tremendous strain on existing methods of air and ground control.
It is mostly a story about service life in the desert and of the constant strain of operations on pilot, ground crew and aircraft.
The most common forms of the bug were now strain C of the bacterial meningococcal meningitis and its blood poisoning relative, septicaemia.
Turn off hot and cold water faucets going to tub between washdays to prevent water pressure strain on hoses.
That is because of the always latent and sometimes active strain of isolationism in American political culture.
Just like the last anniversary, I still strain and grunt to push out each infrequent update but ultimately it's still good fun.
So the strain that, particularly our firefighters and police officers and emergency service workers have been under, is enormous.
At the three modelled upper tip depths, the magnitude of predicted distortional strain energy density remains greater than the critical value.
These locations correspond to the damage zones where our numerical models predict elevated distortional strain energy densities.
Deformation band propagation, where shear occurs along the band, is predicted by distortional strain energy density.
The welded joints are potted in a polyimide tube with an epoxy compound to provide general protection and strain relief.
Some readers have discerned a strain of racial essentialism in his putatively social constructionist stance.
It's a sobering thought that one in six computer users will develop some form of repetitive strain injury during their lifetime.
Curvature is a measure of the local geometry of the surface, while the strain rates measure its relative rate of expansion.
However, it is not a restful light source and can cause eye strain and headaches, partly because of the perpetual flicker.
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Each tick mark indicates that a nucleotide within the strain differs from the consensus sequence.
Marriages frequently run into trouble under the strain of dealing with rebellious teenagers, or when the children fly the nest.
At least 15 independent colonies were analyzed for each strain and the median values were used for the calculation.
The sun's rays, either direct or bounced off the ground, affect the skin and can produce eye strain or temporarily impair vision.
The buttress surface is expanding with high areal strain rates and nearly isotropically.
The genotype of each strain and plasmids used for transformation are indicated at the top.
If the legs move at each strain it is likely that the cow will calve without too much trouble.
At points during the course I suffered from a bit of eye strain as I raced through page after page.
Stress, lack of sleep, eye strain or even hunger can trigger a nasty tension headache.
I got eye strain as a child because I would never go straight to sleep, but would read under the covers.
I am 41 years old and work in a bank and experience blurred vision and eye strain after working for four to five hours.
Now, the simple fact of eye strain has become symptomatic of something deeper than just staring at a computer monitor.
By the late 20th century, one strain of Scottish art had a reputation for being easily accessible, comfortable, douce.
The stress at which plastic deformation or yielding is observed to begin depends on the sensitivity of the strain measurements.
Docs said that it was the first case of computer-related repetitive strain injury they had ever seen in a child.
Everyone knows baby boomers will strain future budgets, yet there's no clamor for corrective policies.
Although it may be a counsel of perfection, true stress and strain could provide a more accurate picture of what is happening.
The wind filled the sails and the ropes creaked and stretched with the strain as the ship ploughed through the waves.
But underneath the searing humour runs a strain of deep discontent at the lives of the dispossessed in society.
A couple of these essays are fatally infected by the particular strain of logorrhoea that afflicts so much current architectural theory.
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Even at this late stage we want to strain every nerve to avoid military action.
Our urine mutagenicity testing did not provide evidence of increased numbers of bacterial strain revertants.
A polo mallet that is too heavy can eventually lead to muscle fatigue, wrist strain or even an injury.
In 1997 the government paid out hefty sums to war veterans, a move that was blamed for putting a strain on the country's economy.
Even such minor things as reading in bed or gritting your teeth can strain neck muscles.
To prevent strain on the cord, feed it through the cable channel and then through the opening on the back of the unit.
What is your feeling about the government putting a retirement program in place in difficult areas in order to take the strain off the resource?
If the volume does not open flat, provide a support to take the strain off the binding as the pages are turned.
The new lab and equipment will take the strain off of other Media Production and Studies resources.
A court should not strain to find a lack of habitual residence where on a broad canvas the child has settled in a particular country.
This unique optional extra is designed to take the strain off the operator's body, especially the back.
They take the strain off the shoulders and upper arm muscles, relieve tension in the area of the neck and the cervical vertebrae.
His detective novels contain none of the twists that strain credulity so often relied upon by thriller novelists.
And to cap it all, there is the Air-Log program to take the strain of on-monitoring and copyright declaration.
We're helping to take the strain off our publicly funded system, so physicians can keep more Canadians in the pink of health.
The visco-elastic polyurethane core also works to dissipate strain energy over large areas.
Piano Dollies make it easier to move pianos from room to room and are designed to take the strain off piano legs.
So irregular migration will take the strain under the worst possible conditions and with abuses.
Core and cover are made of the same high-strength material and take the strain equally.
Like the first case, this new case has been identified as low pathogenic and similar to the strain found in January.
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All of these approaches put pressure on a placement, and can strain the relationship between a young person and the foster family.
They examine the role of these circumstances in exacerbating both strain and weak social control and thereby pushing youths to delinquency.
If the tensile test is continued past yielding, the load reaches a maximum as the strain localizes and a neck develops in the sample.
Blake is suffering from an abdominal muscle strain and the pain was just too much for him to continue playing in Montreal.
At the end of the meetings, Kouchner's shoulders hurt from the strain of simply keeping victim and victimizer from stalking out.
But, secondly, the projects will put a strain on, indeed will be injurious to, the national democracies.
But we slouch in the chair, sitting on the front edge of the seat with our shoulders on the backrest, putting a strain on the lower back.
Health services are buckling under the strain of trying to cope with one of the greatest human emergencies to hit the earth in centuries.
Jorge's Diamond is a unique resin-packed Indica-dominant strain that is potent, sweet, flavorful and incredibly smooth smoking.
Blend with the Braun Multiquick or strain through a sieve to obtain a fine viscidity.
On the other hand, seasonal H1N1 is sensitive to amantadine while the H1N1 2009 strain is not.
I cope with the stress and strain by working out on the exercise bike, and I look at photos of my loved ones every day.
A new strain of religious or messianic extremism is a particularly disturbing trend in the contemporary terrorist threat environment.
For instance, one may find out too late about an important personality trait of the other person, putting a strain on the relationship.
As I said, it takes time to identify a new strain of virus and develop vaccines to deal with it.
She had to remove part of her cervix because her strain of HPV proved to be one of the more serious ones.
In the future, as in the past, we shall continue to strain every sinew to meet the needs of our customers, our investors and our people.
Loads were applied to a cadaveric distal ulna instrumented with strain gauges.
You then strain the stock through cheesecloth, before flavoring it with the best port you can afford.
The strain gauges are bonded to form a Wheatstone bridge that converts the measured strain into an easily managed electrical signal.
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A Danish old people's home, which had found new ways of reducing the physical and mental strain that its employees were under.
Silver Pearl is very hearty and finishes early making it a great strain for novice growers. The flavour is surprisingly fresh and not too skunky.
And you are always aware of the strain and snappishness that arises when people politely avoid saying what is on everyone's mind.
A new strain of bacillus circulans was discovered by the Roquette Microbiology Department.
Additionally, they had only produced a harmless, non-pathogenic strain of bacillus anthracis.
To make a Mai-Tai, add all ingredients except the dark rum into cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake well and strain into highball galss.
Failing to keep the engine at full throttle places strain on the tractor's engine and does not allow the blades to properly mulch grass.
American researchers say the strain of the bacillus found is more common in laboratories than in the wild.
Precipitating antigen is prepared in any cell culture system that supports the rapid multiplication of a reference strain of bluetongue virus.
Remove from the pot, strain the stock and using a sauce ladle skim off any excess fat, keep a little of the fat.
For example, many sprain and strain injuries result from overexertion while workers are lifting objects.
When someone has diarrhoea with a lot of itching, you boil these roots, strain them, and drink.
The winemaker will kill whatever yeast remains with sulphur dioxide, and reseed the grapes with a single strain of commercially produced yeast.
For instance it can be shown that light loads such as 10-15 kg, at a normal work rate, can cause serious repetitive strain injuries.
It helps you burn off excess fat, tone up the muscles, and reduce the heart strain of carrying extra weight.
But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.
Reduces strain and torque of the rotator and avoids sudden block of the rotation.
The score ranged from zero to five, where five indicated the maximum strain on the two-state solution.
The fluorescence intensity must be equivalent to the positive control strain at the same antiserum dilution.
Series 810 Balancer makes the tool weightless and minimizes the strain on the operator.
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The fact that he scarcely ever had time to spend with Françoise soon began to put an increasing strain on the pair's relationship.
The parent strain S92 and ML-01 were grown in synthetic must, the total mRNA was extracted and analyzed in quadruplicate.
Therefore, the eye has to make an effort to see both far and near, creating a visual strain or blurriness at both distances.
Swedish massage shortens recovery time from muscular strain by flushing the tissues of lactic acid, uric acid, and other metabolic wastes.
This includes the intellectual effort and the physical effort and variables such as frequency, duration, exertion, strain etc.
The clinic specializes in a type of injury called repetitive strain injury, or cumulative trauma disorder.
As mourning time progressed and the emotional strain began to subside, the black hues began to lighten.
Now all paediatricians see are cases of obesity and repetitive strain injury.
Bethany Payne, 18, a student at the University of Exeter, receives the allowance for her repetitive strain injury.
The crisis of confidence has provoked a fall in asset prices, compounding the strain on banks' balance sheets.
Also, the oil filter and separator are under increased strain and are more susceptible to clogging.
Comfortable, safe working conditions have been shown to minimise health risks, repetitive strain injury, stress and eye fatigue.
These ailments, which include back pain and repetitive strain injury, are the biggest health and safety problem facing European workers today.
Under certain circumstances, such forces could result in repetitive strain injury to the operator.
Members suffering from a repetitive strain injury are often removed from injury-on-duty leave and placed on direct benefits fairly quickly.
Rotation of operatives between different tasks on a production line is one of the recent steps introduced to combat repetitive strain injury.
Swivels should be of the very best quality, and the Sampo ball bearing swivel in the 500 lb breaking strain size is perhaps the best that is readily available.
These marine systems keep an eye on things such as rudder movements, yaw angles, wind speed and the strain the sails are taking.
But I also want to make clear that it is not the expenditure on Commission reform that is putting a strain on the financial framework here.
Their occupations tend to expose them to lengthy periods of inactivity, especially in a sitting position, and to repetitive strain injury.
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With the aid of HBM strain gages, it is possible to measure the most minute stresses in anisotropic material under the forces caused by chewing.
Opening them will unearth a traditional strain relief, consisting of two very wide and solid claws.
Unexpected power reductions may be indicative of problems within the plant and may place unnecessary strain on systems.
In this study, we conclude about the possibility of separating temperature and strain with distributed sensors made from a single optical fiber.
Famous or no, it would take a certain strain of foolhardiness for a girl to pose semi-naked in this age of Twitpics and Facebook updates.
A strain of fatalism runs through many of the world's religions and beliefs, conditioning people to accept passively whatever may befall them.
Often multiple ropes wrap around the tail and fins and sometimes the whole body causing a great strain on the ropes and nets.
Wash leeks, add orange zests and blanch in boiling water for 3 minutes, strain and slice thinly.
Figure 6 Stress relaxation, strain creep, and indention depth creep and force relaxation.
The torque converter's cushion effect reduces shock and strain on all driveline components.
And on the nursing front, Alwin notes that there's been an outbreak of atypical pneumonias in Asia, possibly harbingers of a more virulent flu strain to come.
He collapses under the strain of it and he is bitten by guilt, remorse, and self-reproach.
The big risk everywhere is that a strain of the virus will transmute into a version that can be passed from person to person.
The dominant strain of the American left, on the other hand, certainly since the decline of the socialist left, fetishizes fairness, openness, and diversity.
Enough vaccine to inoculate everyone in the country against a pandemic strain of flu will be manufactured after the deadly virus breaks out, the Government pledged yesterday.
In 1991, a ship from Asia brought a new, virulent strain of the disease to the port of Lima in Peru, probably through contaminated bilge water.
Will acquiring this documentary heritage put an unsupportable strain on existing access procedures?
It was therefore directed against the B subtype of HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, which is the strain that predominates in rich countries.
To avoid the risk of repetitive strain injury in your wrists, rest them on a wrist support and use a mobile keyboard, changing its position at regular intervals.
Specialist keyboards have been made to minimise repetitive strain injury by splitting the keyboard down the middle and angling each half toward each hand.
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In these places areal strain rates are nearly zero or negative.
This would allow the ecb to increase the money supply and ease the strain on struggling economies such as Greece and Portugal.
The headrest or neck support minimises the strain on the throat and neck muscles of holding the head.
His wife Eleanor was more representative of the activist strain running through the progressive movement.
I use leaders between two and seven feet in length, made up of fifteen pound to twenty pound breaking strain mono and a foot of twenty pound wire.
The viral infection sending hundreds of Midwestern kids to the hospital is EV-68, a rather nasty strain of enterovirus.
This strain of enterovirus seems unusually provocative in irritating lower airways, thereby causing airway narrowing.
In July, the university created a small media frenzy when it announced that it had patented a strain of dulse that tasted like bacon when cooked.
This sample has been used to test the relevance of diverse factors related to economic strain and anomie on individuals' religious affiliation preferences.
Our offices were under significant strain to deal with this increase, which was much greater than the forecasted volume for the year.
In this work, we further modify the Zahalak model to account for inhomogeneous strain fields in constructs whose cell orientations have a significant out-of-plane component.
Blend the soup in a liquidiser until smooth and strain through a sieve if you wish, or leave unstrained.
In terms of cost, virtually every provincial drug plan is under immense strain due to growing demand and the rapid introduction of new and costly prescription drugs.
There are costs associated with maintaining this property and these costs sometimes put a strain on a branch's financial well being.
However, there is concern that the new H1N1 virus could eventually mutate into a more virulent strain and cause a severe pandemic.
Providing that strain does not mutate into something virulent, it poses no threat to birds.
Inside is a large chalkboard with a strain from Chopin written in large notes.
Drawing three arrows, Eragil stuck two into the ground before notching the final onto her bowstring, then pulling back slightly to test the strain on the flaxen string.
Infants who are constipated usually strain and show discomfort with the passage of a bowel movement.
Our feet and back are under great strain each and every day, making them especially vulnerable to tenseness, muscle pains and hardened muscles.
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Lack of oxygen puts a strain on the heart, increases breathlessness, diminishes the individual's ability to function and increases confusion.
In praising the mystical strain in postmodernism, with its emphasis on the elusiveness of truth and presence, she likens it to the apophatic theology of the Pseudo-Dionysius.
The yield stress of iron single crystals are very sensitive to both temperature and strain rate and a similar dependence has been found for less pure polycrystalline iron.
Put the mussels into a tureen to keep warm, then strain the liquor back into the pan through two thicknesses of muslin to remove sandy grit.
Infuse the herbs in the rum for an hour or two, strain and decant into a sterilised jar.
An understanding of the genetic makeup of the most virulent influenza strain ever seen could help health officials manage possible pandemics in the future.
Clients supply transportation, lodging, and ingredients, including the preferred strain of ganja.
Just as the soreness and stiffness of a sprained ankle may linger, a neck strain can also feel achy, stiff or tender for days or weeks.
Trierweiler, a journalist for the glossy weekly Paris Match, was hospitalized for a week, ostensibly under the strain of events.
The apparent popularity of post-feminism should give feminists pause particularly because the post-feminist strain veils deep-seated conservatism.
The financial strain of her disease and the desire to live closer to family led to her moving back to the Maritimes.
Meanwhile, a powerful folkish strain could be enjoyed at the Barbican.
Children laugh with unreserved joy before getting completely distracted, while adults strain to hear, see and understand.
Ever since Aristotle first warned about the perils of overindulgence, there has been a strain of thought that the moral life is the ascetic one.
I knew from experience that the burden of convalescence falls on partners and children, placing a strain on even the most happy families.
Weight gain by overeating puts extra strain on your heart as it has an increased area of body tissue to supply oxygen to.
California's energy shortage and the resulting strain on Washington's power supply are putting a crimp in dairy producers' already-small profit margins.
Ministers also believe that the Forth Rail Bridge may be being placed under too much strain because of increasing amounts of freight being carried by rail.
As the hours passed with cruise control taking the strain from the right foot and no clutch to worry about, it felt like piloting a trans-Atlantic flight.
The strain of carp used does not have a fundamental influence on the quality of the final product.
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Much of his work might appear to have a fundamentalist veneer, as evidenced in his willingness to take words literally and in the quasi-theological strain of his poetics.
The practice is expected to put huge strain on the state health budget.
The bug is similar to the strain of viral gastro-enteritis which has affected a school, a hotel and another hospital in North Yorkshire in the last six weeks.
The local economy is groaning under the strain of this baby boom.
Quite naturally, then, the elegiac strain is central to Indran's oeuvre.
It is shown that tensile elongations between 150 and 200 percent can be obtained with all alloys under the appropriate conditions of temperature and strain rate.
Where he may have erred is in adding the stress and strain of another job when others could have carried it out just as well, others who were, perhaps, more expendable.
Why do some computer work-stations confer eye strain and muscle fatigue?
Another source of eye strain may be the position of your computer monitor.
A recent study has found that concentrating on difficult off-screen objects, such as the faces of loved ones, causes eye strain in computer scientists.
In their glory days, drive-ins expressed a particular, wacky strain of American imagination, their grandiosity and gadgetry revealing a culture captivated by technology.
Abroad we do battle with the world, and it is there we strain every nerve and sinew that we may stem a sea of troubles, and may not be carried away by the stream.
The apparent contradiction with other studies reporting that aerobiosis enhances biofilm formation may rely on differences in experimental conditions and on the strain that were used.
I rouse myself, strain my mind, raise my voice for prophetic utterances, and try in every way to be worthy of the occasion, but to my utter dismay, discover I am not a leader.
The tremendous strain which the Star would have to suffer when the sophistries of recreants and the shibboleths of renegades were abroad will be obvious.
Line a sieve with a clean J-cloth and strain the soya milk infusion into a medium saucepan.
When pilots are tense, flying can offer a Pilates-level workout as the core muscles strain rather than hang loosely in the harness.
A bacterial culture comprising at least one rhizobacterial strain that promotes nodulation of a leguminous plant and a Bradyrhizobium strain.
The fitter you are, the less strain there is on your cardiovascular system when you exert yourself.
The authors conclude that nonfatal firearms injuries can pose a serious strain on the resources of the public health system.
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Only those modified cellulose fibres which demonstrate slight stretch under strain can be called modal.
History showed the British Empire's decline and fall, unable to compete with the strain of global war and the rise of political and economic power elsewhere.
The actions and qualities of probiotics appear to be strain specific.
The significance of this distinction among dialogues is that one can isolate a strain of moral teaching in the aporetic and mixed dialogues.
The strain of proofreading his almost illegible handwriting helped ruin her eyesight, too.
To determine your maximum heart rate, you have to strain yourself to full capacity.
Its third strain gives a fleeting glimpse of a rollicking street song, but it quickly reverts to its original severity.
Frequent use and everchanging weather conditions strain window shade and awning systems.
There is a strain of very British deadpan humour here that complements the flamboyant visual effects.
It helps that there is a strain of wry, deadpan humour running throughout the film.
Increased air traffic has put a strain on aging airport infrastructures around the world.
This information could lead to the development or selection of a canola strain with natural resistance to the blackleg disease.
However we strain to distract ourselves, our consciousness of death heightens our awareness of evil.
The privacy and security requirements of FINTRAC placed an added strain on completing the security checks on new employees in a timely manner.
Heavy workload, time pressures, conflicting demands and lack of autonomy were some of the job strain factors assessed in the research.
Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza could become more easily spread from human to human.
A pathogenic strain of bacteria isolated from healthy fronds and found in necrotic tissue can cause green spot or green rot disease in plants in tank culture.
Continuing industrial and agricultural developments place huge strain on these freshwater systems.
This, however, only encouraged in the quartet a strain of overdeliberation.
Priestley's works had always had a millennial cast, but after the beginning of the French Revolution, this strain increased.
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Ballet dancers are susceptible to injury because they are constantly putting strain and stress on their bodies.
Inflammation and bleeding are triggered when muscle strain occur which resulted in redness, pain and swelling.
By the 1930s, however, a strong Arminian strain developed in many parts of the Brethren movement, especially in North America.
The lack of an association with particular strain lineages suggests that host factors predominate in the breakdown towards mycobacteremia.
These two laxatives should generally be used only when your doctor recommends them, such as if you've just had surgery and shouldn't strain to have a bowel movement.
This is never more obvious than when I strain my back and curse like a sailor because my phone has fallen into the gap beside my car or plane seat.
Research has linked high levels of caregiver strain to increased levels of depression, anxiety, fatigue, anger, family conflict, guilt, self-blame, emotional strain and sleep loss.
Medical evidence indicates the cholera strain was brought to Haiti by Nepalese UN peacekeepers, although the UN neither admits responsibility for the outbreak nor agrees to make reparations.
Men involved in security committees told Amnesty International that night patrols combined with the unbearable heat in the tents during the day and the scarcity of food put an intolerable physical strain on them.
The Bundeswehr needs well trained military personnel with strong personalities and sound judgment who are able to meet challenges even under tremendous mental and physical strain in crisis situations.
Before you strain yourself hiking, you need a compass.
Do not strain yourself for two full days after your surgery.
When it is under a strain of this kind, maximum technical roadworthiness is required in the interests of road safety, environmental protection and not least equitable competition.
Because its centre of gravity is located roughly at the centre point of the shoulder pad, operating the camera for long periods on the shoulder causes less strain on the supporting arm.
Depending on whether their modes of consumption will be wasteful or economical, the strain on energy resources worldwide and on greenhouse gas emissions will be more or less intensive.
Since vaccine strains are selected six to nine months before the start of an influenza season, there is a small chance the strain may change before the season actually begins.
When elimination and assimilation do not function well, it produces carbon and affects respiratory organs, which would lead to mental strain and eventual collapse, leading to depressions, absentmindedness and sleeplessness.
Yet within ourselves we know the knotty facts, that we are odd, inward, spiteful, difficult, ungenerous, envious, self-protective, assuredly intemperate, balanced on occasion by a strange strain of northern mysticism.
Shake vigorously, and strain into a highball glass.
For exercises done in a standing position, the feet should be shoulder-width apart for good balance, the knees slightly bent to prevent strain on the lower back and the toes pointing slightly outward.

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