Sentence examples for overstretched budget from inspiring English sources

As mayor, Mr. Sires inherited a town struggling with a lack of moderate-priced housing, underperforming schools and an overstretched budget.

The intense struggle in Congress last week over a relatively modest Medicare reform bill has underscored a disturbing truth: many of the private plans that participate in the huge government-sponsored health insurance program for older Americans have become a far too costly drain on Medicare's overstretched budget.

And there's still plenty of room for it in your overstretched budget.

Winter is the most difficult time when the cost of heating taxes an already overstretched budget.

Some of its rich-country backers have overstretched budgets of their own, to put it mildly.

For cities with already overstretched budgets, this would be a nonstarter.

Others overstretched budgets, leaving themselves vulnerable to unforeseen expenses or an unexpected pink slip.

With overstretched budgets taking further fiscal stimulus off the table, financial analysts have suggested that nations may be tempted to abandon the euro to achieve growth.

And Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, claimed the government's scheme would create "another demand on their already overstretched budgets".

But the efforts in New York City — often termed the nation's hospital capital — are striking, as officials rush to keep pace with demand, squeezing capital out of overstretched budgets and appealing for more private donations.

Already overstretched budgets will have to be stretched further to meet the new legislative requirements.