Sentence examples for badly overstretched from inspiring English sources

Evidence that U.S. forces are badly overstretched has become incontrovertible.

In refugee camps, it also means that education is badly overstretched.

"This all goes to show how badly overstretched the army is at present," he said.

With forces still badly overstretched by Iraq and Afghanistan, combat commanders have been reluctant to detach trainers.

But honoring it in the months ahead will be extremely difficult with active-duty forces so badly overstretched in Iraq, and prospects for any significant early withdrawals looking bleak.

So far, not much is evident.Bits of Helmand, where a vicious micro-conflict is fuelled by tribal rivalries and drug rackets, have been somewhat calmed since the arrival of 20,000 American troops last year to bail out 8,000 badly overstretched Brits.

Responding to the leaked document minutes, Rethink Mental Illness chief executive, Mark Winstanley, said community mental health services were "badly funded and overstretched".

Winstanley, who has been in the job since October 2014, points out that despite the previous government's promises of increased investment in mental health until 2020, budgets were cut and services "badly funded and overstretched".

The vehicle had passed through three police checkpoints, where officers from the city's overstretched, badly paid, badly trained and badly equipped force stood supposedly keeping an eye on passing traffic.

Our military badly needs rehabilitation but has been underfunded and overstretched.

Yet as Lord Robertson, NATO's chief, complains with exasperation, most of the rest are too badly trained, equipped or funded for missions like Iraq; governments moan that they are overstretched.