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Although the panel did not find any evidence that the firm had knowingly skimped on safety, it concluded that budgets had been inadequate and that staff had been overstretched.

Earlier, a Kurdish official told Reuters news agency that Peshmerga forces had been overstretched but were now calling in large numbers of fighters to hit back.

However, the sack chosen was too small, and had been overstretched, so as the sack hit the waters after being thrown from the bridge, it ripped open.

Social workers warn they have been overstretched for decades, and central government cuts of around 50% in many boroughs won't ease that strain.

Having already reconfigured hokey 80s cop show 21 Jump Street as a sparky comic vehicle for Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, they dare to suggest the joke has been overstretched.

After two wars and continued deployments, we shouldn't ignore the fact that women too will likely have to register for the draft and that our military has been overstretched by never-ending conflict.

African health systems already inadequate to deliver health services to meet the goals of Primary Health Care (PHC) as agreed in Alma Alta in 1978 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been overstretched even more with the demands and consequences of the HIV and AIDS pandemics [ 4, 5].

Your knee may go numb because it has been overstretched.

We have fizzled out a little at the end where we have probably been overstretched".

In addition to crime, she argued, the police have also been overstretched by a doubling in the number of street protests last year, mostly held near the grounds of the United Nations in connection with the Arab Spring upheaval.

Countries with limited institutional strength and limited quality of governance have been repeatedly overstretched by the demands of bilateral and, above all, multilateral donors.