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When a labor pool for an industry is strained, it sends a signal to young people to pursue a career in that field.

It's convenient for newcomers, sure, but even for something like phpbb the model is strained.

Sure, it's a strained at time, but there's little denying that Twitter has taught a lot of us a lot about getting to the point, quickly.

Even the most coherent natural conversations, when put on paper, make for strained reading.

Already transcontinental and other long-haul links are strained to the limit.

That's a pretty strained reading, but ahem the narratives one needs to pay attention to in a lit-crit class are not the narratives in the text.

They were all extraordinary musicians at the top of their games, and yet they came together and produced a piece of work that doesnt feel strained or over the top.

It's always seemed to me a truncated worldview, artificial and strained, ignoring the real content of our deepest intuitions of meaning, beauty, love and justice.

"The amount of resources required to raise an animal to the age at which it can be slaughtered for use as food is a very real problem as the natural resources of the world are strained by population growth.

A whole team of creative people and their families suffered through that one and did not come out whole even as it was - but they stuck it out, as did Mr. Jobs, who invested countless millions in the venture at a time when that strained his personal resources.