Sentence examples for it was overextended from inspiring English sources

It was overextended and could not even feed its garrisons on islands across the Pacific.

According to data from Thomson Financial, the Straights Times Index trades at 16 times earnings, far from levels in 1997 when it was overextended at 24 times earnings.

Its credit rating has been cut recently because of concerns that it is overextended.

The Pentagon holds various military exercises and war games in the region, but it is overextended in other parts of the world and fully cognizant of the horrific consequences of another war on the Korean peninsula.

Thanks to its longstanding practice of selling vodka on credit to alcohol retailers, Rosspirtprom was overextended: it did not have enough cash on hand to pay its taxes.

Gehl was overextended; its debt level jumped from about $30 million to about $60 million.

By 1985, however, it was clear that Mr. Stroh's company was overextended.

By May, it was clear that Kerry's communications director, Stephanie Cutter, was overextended, and reporters said that dealing with the Kerry press office was like calling the D.M.V.

The military was overextended by a government too assured of its own military prowess.

I was overextended".

Whether the practice was overextended is unclear.