Sentence examples for on overstretched from inspiring English sources
Others end up on overstretched adult psychiatric wards without their babies and without specialist care.
The social distress is putting pressure on overstretched charities (sound familiar?).
In a contracting jobs market, harsh new sanctions are senseless, unfair and a tremendous bureaucratic burden on overstretched Jobcentre Plus staff.
He denied that Obama had directly asked for another 2,000 British troops, but there will be private relief in London that other Nato allies have stepped into the breach, reducing the pressure on overstretched British forces.
On current trends, men in 2050 will be enjoying another 1.2 years of retirement.It all adds to the fiscal burden on overstretched governments and suggests that some subtle culling of benefits will occur (for example, by not fully upgrading benefits for inflation).
"As well as potentially putting patient safety at risk, placing an ever-increasing workload on overstretched staff can create a vicious circle in retention and recruitment with many overworked trainees simply choosing to leave the country or indeed the specialty altogether," Mann said.
This crisis has been exacerbated by the stress which the demand for HIV care puts on already overstretched health systems [ 3, 7, 8].
"As we are in the midst of a baby boom, these factors together with the increasing social complexity of care needs for all mothers have a dramatic effect on the workload heaped on already overstretched midwives".
On Saturday overstretched resources were evident in the chaos on Chios where detainees, fearing imminent deportation, had not only run amok, breaking through razorwire enclosing a holding centre on the island, but in despair had marched on the town's port.
The figures were released in response to a Guardian freedom of information request that sheds new light on how overstretched staff in mental health units are increasingly on the receiving end of violence.
And at least one ex-general says the money would be better spent on the overstretched conventional army.
