He added the solution lay in investing in community services to take the strain off hospitals.
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So the private sector will need to take the strain, and the signs here are not good.
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But it is still a form of subtle protectionism, relying on someone else to take the strain.
Other items will be added to the conference agenda if governments think it can take the strain.
Wages, which make up two-thirds of total costs, typically move down only reluctantly, so profits take the strain.
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More efficient deliveries can take the strain off lorries and other shipping infrastructure.
This is because Jodie's heart and lungs will not be able to take the strain of supporting her sister's body.
An unvetted candidate who might have survived a couple of weeks of campaigning couldn't take the strain of this long, drawn-out process.
Mr Jones lets the train take the strain during journeys between his home in north Wales, London and the Wales Office in Cardiff.
When countries on the gold standard suffered a shock they had to let the real economy, rather than their currencies, take the strain.
The state - which saved the free market in 2008 - is simply not strong enough in some parts of the world to take the strain.
Mr Mercer said Newark accepting urgent cases would take the strain off ambulances - giving them the option to take patients to Newark as well as hospitals in Grantham or Kings Mill.
The trick will be to manage this and East Asia's other rivalries in peaceful fashion in a region that is changing fast, yet still has few multilateral clubs or alliances to take the strain.
Given European banks' extensive exposures across the Atlantic, and given the political pressure on them to deleverage anywhere but in their domestic market, the temptation for the banks to liquidate in the U.S. and let the American economy take the strain is huge.
It's rather embarrassing for a government committed to cutting the cost of ministerial travel and evokes memories of John Prescott's infamous decision to let the car take the strain on a short journey between his hotel and the 1999 Labour conference in Bournemouth: except the man known as "Two Jags" did travel more than twice as far - 250 metres.
Go bust, leave the euro, let the exchange rate take much of the strain and hope, as Iceland did in only a couple of years, to be able to sort things out.
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This time, as capital flows to the region slow or reverse, its flexible currencies will take some of the strain: Brazil's real has already edged downwards by 9% or so since the end of March.
But most troubling for owners is the risk they need to take on pitchers, where the strain of uncorking 90-plus mile per hour fastballs greatly increases the propensity for injury compared to everyday players.
In the most extreme cases, the strain Smelser was talking about could take the form of oppression, which, in turn, could spark revolutionary movements and uprisings.
Yet even to believers in small government, like this newspaper, there are good reasons for letting taxes take at least some of the strain.
There is ever mounting evidence the NHS is under strain and many are arguing it will not take much for the wheels to come off.
Jackie Sanders says the combination of physical and emotional strain, combined with the lack of sleep, can take its toll.
The United States is pivoting towards the Pacific, while the European end of Nato will take greater strain.
But now public health services, for which provincial governments take the credit or blame, are under great strain.
Like all new drugs, any vaccine for flu - even one for a particularly lethal strain of the virus - will take time to develop and to be made available to the public.
Scientific teams are racing to produce a vaccine against the new strain, but have warned that this may take years.
Edwards played in the first four games of the season with his latest club, London Broncos, before being sidelined with a hamstring strain and has decided to take a complete break from the game.
Dundee failed to take their chances in a first half which saw the Pittodrie side under considerable strain in defence.
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