Surrey's need to spend an extra £24m this year on rising demand for care was "stretching resources to the limit", Few wrote.
The amount, which covers the period between June 2012 and the end of May 2013, was disclosed in response to a letter to London assembly member Jenny Jones, who said the constant police presence outside the embassy in Knightsbridge, west London, was stretching resources, describing it as ridiculous.
Their high reproduction rate and resulting overpopulation is stretching limited trophic resources and threatening other species such as waterfowl (ie. bitterns and marsh harriers) and muskrats.
The continually increasing number of people in need of assistance is stretching UNICEF's resources.
From Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming, who suggested that the commission apply its limited resources elsewhere: "The Securities and Exchange Commission may be stretching its resources too thin to protect the Warren Buffetts at the expense of ordinary investors".
The region squeaked through, but the agency was stretching its resources "to their limits," said Doug Johnson, a spokesman for Bonneville.
Four months ago, a teacher noticed, during a home visit, that the family had been stretching their resources since Alan's birth.
"We are a small and really young brand," says Erica Pattni, director for marketing at Kind. "We're growing very fast but we're not quite in the big league, so we're stretching our resources as much as we could".
Given the relatively low (15percentt) enrollment rate in the public administration program, the task force believed that the school was stretching its resources and therefore not giving its students the best possible experience.
A senior Cornwall Council officer said the weather was "stretching our resources very, very hard".
On the contrary, it's one of the worst things you can do because you are stretching your resources thin.
