Sentence examples for overstretched at the 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).

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

Gradually, the reasons emerge for Malachy's present state of mind, in a script by John Patrick Higgins that, while heartfelt, seems overstretched at 55 minutes.

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

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.

The oversampling at the beginning (in order to have an adequate number of subjects at the last interview) was not a successful technique and overstretched the researchers and the data collection process unnecessarily.

"This all goes to show how badly overstretched the army is at present," he said.

Recognising that it was overstretched in the Pacific and threatened at home by the Imperial German Navy, Britain formed an alliance with Japan in 1902 and with its old enemies France and Russia in 1904 and 1907, respectively.

The tasks required by the reform overstretched the capacity of these units.

Matthew Pointon, a property economist at Capital Economics, said buyers were becoming overstretched, with the ratio of house prices to earnings significantly higher than its previous peak.