Sentence examples for has been overstretched from inspiring English sources

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.

Your knee may go numb because it has been overstretched.

But even with 5,000 firefighters, government resources have been overstretched.

While the initial tide of notifications has since receded, the Commission's resources since the beginning have been overstretched, with the result that enforcement efforts have been insufficient.

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

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.

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].

Indeed, while the US military has been significantly overstretched by these two wars, the British military (with a budget of £32.6bn compared to a US budget of over £331bn) is simply unable to maintain any form of "full spectrum dominance" in the two theatres of operations.