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How to use the word strains in a Sentence?

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You can’t run an airline like it’s 2019, and the reason is because the system is just stressed to the max, there’s strains everywhere, whether it’s in security or FAA staffing or systems. Across the board there are strains in the system, aircraft manufacturers delivering, having enough pilots and all of those stresses and strains means that the system is tighter.

Scott Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are overworked, and they often suffer the strains of I would even say post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Judge Bruce Einhorn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I do think, anytime you can introduce additional strains or variants into a vaccine, the human body's immune response tends to be a little bit broader and more durable and potentially longer-lasting.

Michael Chang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The list of strains on stocks is pretty long. We have the war, the reminder that the pandemic is endemic and significant, long-lasting disruptions to supply chains, investors are understandably hunkering down.

Vincent Reinhart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

These alarming reports have rightly raised concerns among my constituents in Maryland. They know these illegal immigrants will place strains on their communities, they deserve a full accounting of the numbers of illegal aliens released into their neighborhoods.

Andy Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm OK, I have a test every day — a COVID test. I have been checking for all the strains. What I have is a 1-and-a-half year-old grandson, who had a cold, who loves to kiss his pop.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The new viral variants are just intrinsically more infectious than the old strains.

Sam McConkey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Of the first seven cases in Arizona, five were different strains of the virus, definitely the impact of vaccinations, we're not seeing the clustering or uncontrolled spread of the virus. Nor are we seeing the uncontained, unexplainable, uncontrolled spread we saw last year.

Allen Sills

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These strains - there is no reason they can't keep coming, and one more powerful than the next. We don't know that, but that's certainly a plausible outcome. As vaccinations rise we can nonetheless get back to our economic activity.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are very encouraged by the data showing that NVX-CoV2373 not only provided complete protection against the most severe forms of disease but also dramatically reduced mild and moderate disease across both trials, importantly, both studies confirmed efficacy against the variant strains.

Stanley Erck

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you don't get these hotspots under control outside the Krishna Udayakumar, they're going to come back, likely with new, dangerous strains that may undermine our vaccines, it's both prudent to do it and ethical to do it.

Krishna Udayakumar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we are going into a period of faster growth and higher job creation and that’s a good thing, i would point out there are still risks, in particular I would say the main risk is definitely another spike in cases perhaps in one of the virus strains that may be more difficult to treat.

Jerome Powell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Given that the prevalence of globally circulating flu is incredibly low right now, the WHO may not have the thousands of influenza positive samples it usually relies on to make strain selection decisions, the WHO may have to marginally postpone its strain selection recommendation to March for one or more strains. This, in turn, may pose extra challenges to manufacturers.

Matthew Downham

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Financial sector vulnerabilities are likely to be significant, in the near term, the strains on household and business balance sheets from the economic and financial shocks since March will likely create fragilities that last for some time.

The Fed

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This multiple strains idea has to be very much debunked, we know there is only one strain.

Eric Topol

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Some of the factors are how much variation we can expect to see in the genetic profile of infecting strains of the novel coronavirus... Since the virus is so new, we don't have the data yet.

Bala Hota

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated. By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden is wrong and appalling.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.

Mitt Romney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated, by all appearances, the president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.

Mitt Romney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Despite strains in money markets that have forced Fed intervention this week, there is no indication of any imminent return to quantitative easing and balance sheet expansion.

Greg McBride

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Dreams were broken, relationships with loved ones were damaged, and the harm now carries over to our children as many of us have become so overprotective that it strains the relationship with our kids.

Kent Kilgore

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people, in the 20th century, more broader questions were litigated under the 14th Amendment, like Brown v. Board of Education -- whether segregation was constitutional. Cases involving the internment of Japanese citizens, case from the marriage equality decisions, even Roe vs. Wade have strains of equal protection language and invoke due process law.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It strains any credibility that somehow the leadership of the Saudi regime, which is so authoritarian, wouldn't have knowledge of these actions.

Mark Warner

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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