State officials said the move would create new financial strains on the system.

But when you talk about individual people, will it create strains in a marriage?

The hot market has created strains as residents are priced out of this company town.

State officials said the President's action would create new financial strains on the decades-old system.

Already, China's construction boom has created strains on many kinds of natural resources.

"Our own view is that a slowdown will create stresses and strains."

Severe water shortages are creating social and political strains on both sides of the river.

Such activities can create strains between urban universities and their state legislatures.

But the primaries also created lasting strains between the two men and their staffs.

"They don't realize that pressures external to their families are creating these stresses and strains."