Sentence examples for overstretched at from inspiring English sources

Morton said it came about because the South West team was overstretched at the time and had not correctly assessed the case as being a high priority.

"The private sector is not overstretched at all," says Dirk Schumacher of Goldman Sachs.Even so, German growth is expected to sag, from about 2.6% this year to 2% or less in 2008 (see chart).

However, The Scotsman's Paul Whitelaw said that, despite a "disjointed" plot and it being "overstretched at 90 minutes": "It was actually pretty good.

After more than 40 days of relief operations in locations around the country, Madagascar's crisis responses services are overstretched at best.

Keeping some kind of life going in more than one country at once has made me feel quite overstretched at times, but overall, I'm having a lot of fun.

Cuts to the budget for social care put extra strains on hospitals that are already overstretched, as I saw at first hand during a recent stay in a London hospital after incurring a minor injury.

The influx has overstretched services at the camps, with families that are yet to be registered having to share food ratios and crowd into limited accommodation with clan members.

China's current-account surplus suggests that domestic demand is not overstretched; inflation, although at a six-year high, is only 1.8%; and though property prices are bubbling in some cities, average house prices have risen by only 4% in the past year.China does not look like the East Asian tigers before their crisis.

The regime of the likable but awkward Philip IV — a Hapsburg whose inbred heirs (not counting his thirty-two bastards) seemed to die nearly as fast as Velázquez could paint them as toddlers in royal regalia — was overstretched abroad, sclerotic at home, and, what with the Dutch and English predation on its shipments of gold and silver from its New World colonies, often broke.

India's aviation infrastructure is overstretched, causing annoying delays at every stage of a journey.

It is overstretched, but it has at least four effective combat divisions.