You haven't tried to run a house with tiresome servants and ailing children, and you don't realize what a strain it is at times, and how molehills become mountains, because there are so many of them piled on to each other.

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Within hours thousands of news services have been marking the geography of death and illness, pointing to an usually aggressive outbreak of what appears to be a rampant strain of E. coli.

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But there were four events left, each of which would put a terrible strain on what remained of his left biceps.

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Listening to Lovelock it is easy to see why his theories caught on with New Age thinkers -- there is a strain of spirituality in much of what he says.

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The influx of Iraqis fleeing violence during the war has placed a strain on public services in Jordan, now hosting what the United Nations estimates are 750, 000 refugees.

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The supply-side chapel in which many of us have worshiped for so many years has an odd strain running through its creed of what can only be described as a kind of permissive Puritanism: Politicians can do what they want to do as long as they do do the few things they must do right.

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Teixeira managed to strain his right wrist last week while hitting balls off a tee, exactly what the team needed least coming just after a pitch broke Curtis Granderson's forearm.

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