A number of strands to the crisis should be identified.

I left a lot of magical strands to see just where you went.

In the second and final years, students concentrate on one of the strands.

What we must do is set out political priorities for all of the strands.

A few of the strands fell loose and onto her face.

Somewhere out between the stars one of the strands in the web had broken.

A bunch of strands made for a very tangled situation.

The lowest number of strands is 7: one in the middle, 6 surrounding it.

Deliberately she pulled loose a couple of strands around her face.

But it is more like a series of push-pull strands.