Overstretching resources in a climate of constrained government funding is a risky strategy any way you look at it.
High false positive rates also indicate that routine use of the HADS-A, STAI and SSAI for anxiety disorder screening purposes can overstretch healthcare resources.
What is more, in contemporary times, the magnitude of the AIDS-orphaned crisis seems to so overstretch the resources of families in sub-Saharan Africa that the collapse of fostering seems imminent [ 18], necessitating the need for a support/alternative care system.
A Save the Children official told the committee that the "overstretching of resources had created incentives for national authorities not to treat minors as children".
This will be costly, but cheaper than keeping up a substantial western naval presence for the foreseeable future, overstretching military resources further still.
Catrambone fretted that Moas was overstretching family resources – both time and money – and, with only €1m pledged, he could not understand why there had been so few donations from rich individuals, especially in the Middle East.
We were probably overstretching our resources.
"We were probably overstretching our resources and this is an opportunity to make the competition more intense, commercially viable and sustainable - and that's what's probably in the players' best interests in the long term.
"Many families were forced to flee their homes during the conflict and lost their means to earn an income, while other families hosted displaced people, overstretching their resources," said Hervé Ludovic de Lys, UNICEF Designated Representative in Côte d'Ivoire.
While he admits it is a "draconian measure", he states, "The bottom line is that any species that overstretches its resource base suffers a population crash.
