The evidence can be seen in rising default rates, increasingly strained finances at mortgage lenders and growing doubts among investors.

The cables verified an increasingly strained relationship between the Vatican and Pakistan.

Farmer and the club's committee had an increasingly strained relationship, and Farmer quit in 1975.

The new approach resulted in increasingly strained relations with the US.

This was fairly successful, reducing inflation to 7.4% by 1978, but led to increasingly strained relations between the government and the trade unions.

Disclosure of the inquiry comes amid increasingly strained relations between universities and the department.

The cause was increasingly strained relations with its conductor Leopold Stokowski.

However it led to increasingly strained relations between the government and the trade unions.

Stolp Island was a popular spot for public buildings due to increasingly strained relations between the two sides of the river.

Maintaining that control takes $100 million a year out of Morocco's increasingly strained resources.

Meanwhile, Judge Wachtler prepared an annual "State of the Judiciary" report, including figures that chillingly documented how courts were increasingly strained by drug-related crime.

Her relationship with Hans becomes increasingly strained during his infrequent returns home on leave.

Because of the aging population and the retirement of the baby boomers, Social Security's finances will be increasingly strained over the next 40 years.

In the late 1960s, relations between clergy and musicians in the Church of England became increasingly strained over the question of fees and salaries.

Such concerts were probably getting fewer anyway, since former patrons may have found their own financial resources increasingly strained by the exigencies of the continuing war with Turkey.

During the mid-1960s, relations between white liberals and the civil rights movement became increasingly strained; civil rights leaders accused liberal politicians of temporizing and procrastinating.

Infrastructure systems built decades ago are increasingly strained by the daily demands placed on them.

Relations between the two generals became increasingly strained over the summer and fall.

Japan's relations with Europe and the United States have been increasingly strained by the country's soaring trade surpluses.

By the 1890, de Guaita, Papus, and Péladan's collaboration became increasingly strained by disagreements over strategy and doctrines.