My father spent his last months on earth bedridden and straining for every breath.
The primitive fish mouth straining for water and finding it as my son releases it in the shallows.
This is like Sumo wrestling: big guys straining for advantage.
The revelations over steroid use may have sent a lot of moralizing sports columnists into hysterics, while turning Commissioner Bud Selig into a punching bag who's now straining for damage control.
Truth for Fermor lay in the details, and his books show the same straining eye for the small fact, the telling minutiae.
This is a salvation for a city straining to comply with federal air quality regulations.
The ever-expanding Chinese economy is straining world-wide demand for industrial metals.
Water will be straining against those levees and walls for some time.
Doctors and hospitals are straining to cope with the demand for this weight-loss procedure, recently popularized by U.S. TV weatherman Al Roker and pop singer Carnie Wilson.
What is needed is a combination of steps: some immediate limitation on COLAS, some intermediate move to prevent inflation from pushing up benefits faster than the rise in wages and payroll taxes, some long-range measures to raise the retirement age and keep the formula for calculating benefits from straining the resources of society.
But now they are straining to make these strategies work as high demand for these properties drives up prices.
Fellow All-Star Mark Teixeira also is sidelined until May after straining his right wrist swinging a weighted bat during warmups for the World Baseball Classic.
For the first time in more than two decades demand is straining at capacity.
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With every major contractor in the business straining to get a piece of this relatively small pie, the prospects for making a killing are not high.
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For those who scoff at the thought of retrofitting a beloved class into eye-straining ticket price-hiking 3-D, just look at the performance of The Lion King last weekend.
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One alternative is for increased government intervention in the market, coupled with increased tax revenues and spending cuts, further straining already weak government budgets.
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