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

Had he rejected it, they added, his own arguments about the city's strained finances might have come back to haunt him.

Another less sunny aspect of the program involves strained finances.

Given the Government's strained finances, it is probably impossible for Indonesia to provide poor people across this vast archipelago with subsidized rice.

It was built in 1350, but was not finished owing to strained finances.

Both the well-off and the poor feel trapped, in part by the same recessionary pressures that are pushing Bridgeport's strained finances to the limit.

She fears this new child will bring grave economic hardship to the family's strained finances.

St. Martin's strained finances have also taken their toll.

He conceded that his own strained finances contributed to the decision to carry on with the case.

Some believed that the plan to resettle 1.5 million people by 1994 was unrealistic, given the country's strained finances.