Sentence examples for existing overstretched from inspiring English sources

In particular, there was a concern that the exemptions scheme would increase the workload of existing overstretched staff, and that this would contribute to demoralisation and a consequent drop in quality of services for clients.

In so doing, they sometimes fail to build appropriate controls and leave existing managers overstretched: NatWest has built a sizeable derivatives business out of nothing in a handful of years.

Also, the banking system does not have enough reach, and the existing branches are overstretched by other government schemes such as NREGS.

Activists say existing victim-assistance programs are overstretched and that many crime-hit communities lack support programs.

In these crowded conditions, existing provisions for safe water and sanitation services have become overstretched.

In response to the evictions, residents have drawn up plans for a "super co-op", uniting the existing co-operatives, making residents council tenants and renovating properties so that they can be returned to the council's overstretched housing stock – exactly the kind of thing that Steve Reed has been evangelising about, saying, "When tenants are in control, services improve faster".

Our military is overstretched.

Naturally, it is overstretched.

Teachers are horribly overstretched.

The army was overstretched.

But with the existing border control system under extreme stress, checks or visas for 100 million EU arrivals each year will mean a vast increase in workload for a Border Force that is already overstretched.