Collocations withstrain
These are words often used in combination withstrain.
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added strain
I am also troubled by extension of the probationary period on marriages to two years, which will place added strain on couples.
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additional strain
Only this makes it possible for farmers to take corrective action without additional strain on producers' economy and on the environment through inappropriate production methods.
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bacterial strain
Pure culture studies allow the testing of the response of the selected bacterial strain to the simulation conditions.
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considerable strain
Considerable strain, however, has been put upon the networks through which non-food resources are shared.
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emotional strain
A few have died as the result of the emotional strain; not a few have lost their reason.
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enormous strain
Unquestionably, the refugees placed an enormous strain on the already inadequate infrastructure of the city.
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excessive strain
At the end of the first 5 years, 10% of women already had more children 'than they felt able to manage without excessive strain'.
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financial strain
Financial strain was also negatively related to going out for breakfast.
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increasing strain
Increasing strain is marked by increased fabric intensity.
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mental strain
Farmers are under the most enormous mental strain.
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mutant strain
In order to test for ' dominance ', crosses were made between haploids derived from a single heterozygous mutant strain.
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new strain
This sudden appearance of a new strain of the virus is termed antigenic shift.
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physical strain
In the village there was, of course, economic hardship, physical strain, battering and above all male control and subjugation.
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plastic strain
We have found no unequivocal evidence to suggest that these quartz veins underwent subsequent static recrystallization or plastic strain.
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psychological strain
The psychological strain of a fast and crisis-ridden industrialisation process is supposed to have provoked an antimodern sentiment in large parts of the population.
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serious strain
This unbalanced development is currently putting serious strain on continued development.
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severe strain
Furthermore, industrial test suites put severe strain on the speed and resource bounds of functional models.
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signs of strain
With such a loading upon her resources, it is small wonder that her democratic political institutions should show signs of strain.
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strain gauge
The elastic girder deforms differently when a different diameter tube is measured, thus resulting in a different output of the strain gauge transducer.
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strain of bacteria
Consider a world in which there is one strain of bacteria that causes one disease.
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terrible strain
It was a terrible strain, and only the healthy vigour of youth allowed you to go through it.
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tremendous strain
This demonstrates the power that bonds of kinship and community could hold, even under tremendous strain.
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undue strain
Any alphanumeric system places undue strain on the memory, and this one is no exception.
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unnecessary strain
Again, it seems to me a largely unnecessary strain.
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vaccine strain
This implies that the protection induced by the vaccine appears to be less strong against the new strains than it was against the vaccine strain.
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viral strain
Browsing at the speed of light through the enormous database of previously produced antibodies, these lymphocytes find out that they have never before encountered this particular viral strain.
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virulent strain
As a consequence, it is more difficult to eradicate the less virulent strain than the more virulent one, since the less virulent strain can persist in a less dense population.
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