How To Use Overstrain In A Sentence

  • We're not raising earnings by overstraining ourselves," Mr. Inamori said at a news conference. JAL Raises Profit Outlook by One-Third
  • Some localities flatly refused to accept refugees at all, for fear of overstraining existing resources. 1948, Israel and the Palestinians: The True Story
  • The addition of the SiC reinforcement probably overstrained the lattice, and thus the alloy no longer had sufficient strain energy remaining to gain its potential strength and ductility.
  • Event TV was thought to be dying as channels proliferated, people timeshifted their viewing and audiences fragmented in a way that made the viewing figures of yesteryear 21.6 million to find out who shot JR, 28 million every time Eric and Ernie popped their Christmas hats on, 32.3 million for the 1966 World Cup seem like the fevered dream of an overstrained ITV exec. How Twitter saved event TV
  • `The truth is he was our pastoral failure: he got overstrained and couldn't cope and he felt he couldn't ask either of us for help. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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  • Deaths from cold, malnutrition, and overstrain were common.
  • Monte Carlo - Sweden's French Open finalist Robin Soderling will miss next week's Monte Carlo Masters, delaying his start on clay to take care of what has been diagnosed as "overstrain" of his right knee. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • But if the choir leader is not a thoroughly qualified vocal instructor, or if he has erroneous ideals of what boy-voice tone should be, the result is frequently that the voice is overstrained and perhaps ruined; or else the singing is of an insipid, lifeless, "hooty" character, making one feel that an adult mixed choir is infinitely preferable to a boy choir. [ Essentials in Conducting
  • “They were there, in short, because America did not yet know what it was all about; and because they were there they contributed mightily to the fact that an overstrained army driven from the field in defeat dissolved into a wild and disorderly rout which no man could stop.” Louisa May Alcott
  • Egyptagricultural land being lost to urbanization and windblown sands; increasing soil salination below Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; very limited natural fresh water resources away from the Nile, which is the only perennial water source; rapid growth in population overstraining the Nile and natural resources Environment-current issues
  • That in one and another way the cruel competition for the dollar, the new and exacting habits of business, the racing speed which the telegraph and railway have introduced into commercial life, the new value which great fortunes have come to possess as means towards social advancement, and the overeducation and overstraining of our young people, have brought about some great and growing evils, is what is now beginning to be distinctly felt. Wear and Tear or, Hints for the Overworked
  • That's one agency that's really overstrained in terms of how much work they have to do and how much money they have to do it.
  • Longshoreman and other workers who must carry heavy loads, or who have their back bent for a long time can easily overstrain their backs.
  • Now I am anxious to test thee, and seek not thou from rage to turn aside from the truth, nor will I on my part overstrain the case. Iphigenia at Aulis
  • If you micropylar the entry level sales megahertz to a euclidian windsock, podicipediformes to that blessing in your progressive antique nitrochloroform and theropoda the predestinate overstrain. Rational Review
  • We'll find some nice war-work for you presently" ... and meanwhile, the household was short-handed, Mrs. Rainham was overstrained -- Cecilia found later that her stepmother was always "overstrained" whenever she spoke of leaving home -- and duties multiplied about her and hemmed her in. Back to Billabong
  • Undoubtedly not more insane than the rest of us, but her self-control snapped like a bowstring which is overstrained. The Dangerous Age
  • The mental activity consumes energy and can, in the event of excess, lead to overstrain.
  • He overstrained his wounded arm, hissed in pain, and rubbed it.
  • On the fourth of the month, patients might change diets, increase alcohol consumption, refuse medicines, or overstrain themselves.
  • Your strength will return - if you don't overstrain yourself.
  • Generally the onset is related to trauma even micro trauma of shoulder or caused by the overwork excess fatigue overstrain affection of external wind-cold.
  • Here he stopped a moment to reconnoitre the gate through which he had to pass; and seeing, even at that distance, many soldiers on guard, his imagination also being rather overstrained, (one must pity him; for he had had enough to unsettle it), he felt a kind of repugnance at encountering the passage. Chapter XVI
  • In the meantime I shall nurse the feeble remnants of my voice in every way, and during the last weeks before your arrival I shall try a few solfeggi, in order to restore the overstrained and badly treated instrument to a tolerable condition. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
  • In the meantime I shall nurse the feeble remnants of my voice in every way, and during the last weeks before your arrival I shall try a few solfeggi, in order to restore the overstrained and badly treated instrument to Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
  • This pregnancy could overstrain an already overstrained body and could put her remission in jeopardy.
  • In the autumn of 1938, at her own request, Karin Boye took up full-time teaching at Viggbyholm, but the workload proved to be too much for her, and she suffered from overstrain and exhaustion. Karin Boye - a biographical profile - 8
  • Then there were those charges and theories of overstrained eyes, diplopia, and defective focussing, to say nothing of other suggestions. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
  • Usually, shared kitchen and lavatory facilities were overstrained and badly installed, causing serious problems to human and building health.
  • One should also add a part of the costs shouldered by the postwar generations in the form of diverse long-term adverse effects of wartime overstrain.
  • Their language isolation causes overstrain of the nervous system, which leads to various conflict situations.
  • Banshee, nor of his cough, with a spitting of blood, brought on, I understand, by catching cold in attending the courts, and overstraining his chest with making himself heard in one of his favourite causes. Castle Rackrent
  • Their resources destroyed, their water supply devastated, their hospitals bombed, overstrained and collapsing.
  • Indiadeforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining natural resources Environment-current issues
  • So asthma is caused by exogenous factors, an improper diet, emotional injury or overstrain which strain the interior phlegm, causing it to rise and obstruct the bronchi.
  • Two principal factors are involved: intellectual overstrain and emotional stress.
  • Much like The Shield, this isn't a narrative that can continue indefinitely without overstraining our credulity. Ask Matt: Entourage, Ringer, Closer, Torchwood and More!
  • Egypt's major environmental issues include: agricultural land being lost to urbanization and windblown sands; increasing soil salination below Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; limited natural fresh water resources away from the Nile, which is the only perennial water source; and, rapid growth in population overstraining the Nile and natural resources. Egypt
  • I have flaunted these truisms before you in order to exorcise that modern slang of yours which is more false than the overstrained forms of a feudal France. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • Harnack -- who has already reviewed his pages in the _Expositor_, and who, to a great extent, adheres to the views which they propound -- admits, notwithstanding, that he has "overstrained" his case, and has adduced as witnesses writers of the second and third centuries of whom it is impossible to prove that they knew anything of the letters attributed to Ignatius. The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot
  • These positivists notice overwhelming evidence to show that the leadership overstrained their resources in every way.
  • More committed to winning the war than to ruling Germany, he lent his prestige to a series of policies, including unrestricted submarine warfare, that overstrained Germany's resources and added the USA to an already long list of enemies.
  • There are of course no "bagging" people at Ikea -- just posted reminders that it is better to purchase an Ikea shopping bag so as to not overstrain the environment (never mind about your back). Danielle Crittenden: Why I Hate Ikea
  • If they overstrain themselves, they make new enemies.
  • In general, overstrain of any kind tends to overfatigue. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
  • The young man clung rather faintly to the supporting planks, as if he had overstrained himself; and two or three hands, who had already shoved off a "bateau," pushed out and picked him up with his burden. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
  • One of his conclusions is that the so-called technical exercises, gymnastics, manual training, sloyd, and the like, are not, as they are erroneously called, a relaxation from mental overstrain by change in work, but simply a new form of brain fatigue. The Education of the Child
  • Coming too soon to an overcrowded, overstrained and overleveraged metropolis near you. TV review: Dispatches – Olympic Tickets for Sale; Storyville – If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • Although Mumbai has a well developed public transport system that includes suburban rail and buses, the network is "overstrained" and so the city also sees a lot of car traffic, which affects air quality. How Green Are India's Cities?
  • Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
  • I'll have keep my records brief so I don't overstrain my poor hand.
  • I thought I had simply overstrained myself during an exercise and that it would go away after a few days.
  • Hormones and overstraining injure, maim and kill racehorses off the track. YesButNoButYes: Lunch Hour Veg
  • Polly's health, and that I look to her to help me get settled without overstrain to my wife -- in short, administer a dose of duty, and she may see her way to coming. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
  • With the decline of the Roman empire, barbarian attacks impoverished and depopulated the frontier provinces, and laid a burden of defense on the empire which overstrained the administrative machinery and its economic resources.
  • Longshoreman and other workers who must carry heavy loads, or who have their back bent for a long time can easily overstrain their backs.
  • When feet pronate excessively, certain tissues are overstrained.
  • But for now, in order not to overstrain the customer, we see limited, well-targeted price discounts as more appropriate in Internet retailing than full dynamic pricing. What E-Tailers Can Learn
  • In any case the human species, in course of deterioration through overstrain, would find amongst these singers of the shaduf and these labourers with the antiquated plough, brains unclouded by alcohol, and a whole reserve of tranquil beauty, of well-balanced physique, of vigour untainted by bestiality. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
  • States and localities, their economies soured and their budgets overstrained, are unable to maintain services for their neediest citizens.
  • Well, if you feel you have to… just watch out that you don't overstrain yourself.
  • And on the fifteenth day, when that we had gotten up and washt and eat and drank, the Maid did look unto my bandages; and did consider that I be healed very good, if but that I not to overstrain my body. The Night Land
  • Environment—current issues: agricultural land being lost to urbanization and windblown sands; increasing soil salination below Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; very limited natural fresh water resources away from the Nile, which is the only perennial water source; rapid growth in population overstraining the Nile and natural resources Egypt
  • Without overstraining themselves, they had learnt a lot about coordination and preparation, besides the effectiveness of teamwork when it came to handling challenging projects.
  • I'm sorry, but in cases like these, it's best not to have the patient overstrained.
  • Environment—current issues: deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining natural resources India
  • “The braking thrusters are firing too hot!” she said, shouting to be heard above the overstrained sublight propulsion system that seemed about to rattle the ship apart. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
  • Generally the onset is related to trauma even micro trauma of shoulder or caused by the overwork excess fatigue overstrain affection of external wind-cold.
  • If he doesn't say yes, I promise myself, I will stab him through his engorged and overstrained heart, and put us both out of our misery. Lucy Mangan: Toryboy's turning into a weight on my mind

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