The stress of trying to blend them together is putting the European project under severe strain.
But it has been under severe strain partly because of intertribal fighting in the south.
For many wage earners, the cost of maintaining their mini-imperial courts can put a severe strain on family finances.
Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, said earlier that the fuel shortage was putting a severe strain on Gaza's civilian population.
The number of wildfires being tackled over the last 10 days was said to have placed severe strain on the fire service.
All that has put severe strain on the world financial system.
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There's been speculation that not all the senior princes agreed with him - and were fearful that this approach would do further damage to US-Saudi relations, which in recent months have come under severe strain.
The swiftness of New Century's implosion was reminiscent of the severe strain felt by mortgage lenders in the last crash of the subprime business, back in 1999, when New Century itself was rescued by an equity infusion from U.S. Bancorp.
Following the retirement of the American space shuttle in July, the Soyuz rocket is the only means of getting astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS. August's failure saw manned flights stand down even longer than the six weeks for unmanned Soyuz rockets, and the hiatus put a severe strain on the operation of the space station.
The swiftness of New Century's implosion was reminiscent of the severe strain felt by mortgage lenders in the last crash of the subprime business, back in 1999, when New Century itself was rescued by an equity infusion from U.S. Bancorp. (nyse: USB - news - people ) Hopes for a similar rescue have faded this time around.
Like many longtime journalists, I suffer from severe repetitive strain injuries.
And during that time of the Roman Republic it was under some severe military strain, and the leaders in Rome went to Cincinnatus at the plow and asked him to lead their nation, lead the Republic, save the Republic.
But the more modest movements that are happening all around us, and that are the focus of my upcoming book about movement marketing, coming out of StrawberryFrog, are more often a response to something slightly less severe than strain.
In a small, soon-to-be published study, French researchers found the vaccine seemed to lower the risk of severe disease from the new strain in infants.
Much of the work is dirty and dangerous, though, and the strain on families is severe.
This particular flu strain has lead to more severe disease with more deaths and hospitalizations than in recent years.
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"We are cautiously optimistic that this particular strain will not be more severe than a normal seasonal flu outbreak, " Napolitano said.
The 2012-13 flu season is said to have started earlier than usual, with many cases of the H3N2 strain, which can be severe.
More recently, there have been worries about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and a strain of flu known as H5N1 in 2008, though neither created the pandemic researchers feared they might.
Sometimes the strain continues, however, and can be classified as severe anxiety, or even post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The results of a trial of another oral vaccine called Rotarix, developed by GlaxoSmithKline, showed it was effective against the most common strain of rotavirus and able to prevent 85% of severe cases.
So far it has worked for the 0157 strain of E.coli, which causes some of the most severe cases of food poisoning - occasionally proving fatal if the victim is an infant, elderly or already weak.
With equipment that is falling apart and a war entering its tenth year, the strain on the troops -our most precious resource-- can only be described as severe.
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One of the most severe cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States has been reported in southern Texas: a strain of TB resilient to at least eight of the 15 drugs used to treat this deadly airborne disease.
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