1.   But the system is creaking, and there are attempts besides those of Juppe to impose change.

2.   Otherwise the system will creak on in a form that continues to allow significant abuses.

3.   Public-opinion analysts of both political parties agree that the two-party system is creaking under remarkable stress today, the pressures coming from every direction.

4.   Social systems are creaking under the strains of an aging society with high expectations of social benefits financed by an ever-smaller labor force.

5.   Yet the fact that they can be heard at all shows that the water-rights system is creaking.