Sentence examples for of the overstretched from inspiring English sources

At the same time, he should not overestimate the patience of the American people or the weariness of the overstretched military.

And it is not just the planet's capacity but also the acquiescence of the overstretched, credit-card-debt-burdened American households that is running out.

During the Bush era, contractors enjoyed a bonanza – particularly in Iraq, where they were used to perform many of the roles of the overstretched military.

He looks at what happens when those low teaser rates reset and double or triple the monthly mortgage payments of the overstretched homeowner.

The lion's share, however, will be found by raiding other parts of the overstretched defence budget, with planned cuts that would realise around £1.5 billion over three years.This amounts to more than trimming fat (by, for example, slashing the number of civil servants at the Ministry of Defence); solid muscle is to be sliced into as well.

Those who have learned the lessons of Munich square off against those who have learned the lessons of Vietnam, and then they both invoke the bread-and-circus days of the overstretched Roman empire in an attempt to sound even more subtle and profound.

Labor has also promised $200m to build the Western Women's and Children's hospital in Sunshine to take some of the burden off the overstretched hospital there.

Assad's troops have overrun Anadan several times in recent weeks, but with bigger battles to fight in Aleppo they were nowhere to be seen when a Reuters team visited the town - a sign of the difficulty the overstretched Syrian military may be facing in keeping full control over restive areas.

By analyzing the different values of l corresponding to a wide spectrum of experiments, we find that for a range of temperatures and ionic conditions, the overstretched form is likely to be a mix of M-DNA and S-DNA.

The proposed initiative – which has come from the States – is at least a social equaliser in that it's bound to strike fear into the overstretched hearts of every type of British worker, from your humble parole scheme scaffolder, to your media solutions manager, to the Head of Inequality at JP Morgan.

By Hendrik Hertzberg August 12, 2008 The lede of a story in today's Times, by Paul von Zielbauer and James Glanz, sums up a remarkable number of the ways that Bush the Younger's Iraq adventure resembles the overstretched twilight of the late Roman Empire: BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 — The Blackwater USA compound here is a fortress within a fortress.