1.   Even small gifts could strain resources.

2.   While a profusion of partial paths may strain the resources of the computing machinery, they need not affect the interpretation of the complete utterance.

3.   An economy that accelerates too quickly can strain resources, driving up prices and eroding the value of stocks and fixed-income investments.

4.   At a time when the association needs to fight many political and legal battles, its resources are strained.

5.   At the same conference, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said the march would severely strain police resources, since it falls on the busy Labor Day weekend.

6.   But their resources are strained by the cross-border traffic that has burgeoned since the North American Free Trade Agreement was carried out nearly five years ago.

7.   If the economy is expanding too quickly, straining resources, the pace of inflation can accelerate and erode the value of stocks and fixed-income investments.

8.   Japanese officials plan to bring up the problems industrialized countries face when aging populations strain pension resources.

9.   JCI said low gold prices, however, may strain cash resources at Randfontein.

10.   Officials complain that investigating abuses in electricity markets strains their resources.