Sentence examples for overstretched the from inspiring English sources

If disability services are overstretched, the same reason is given.

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

And it states that, under Labour, the government has overstretched the armed forces, leaving them without sufficient reserves.

The house overstretched the Spalls; on occasion they were so short of money they almost sold up.

This is the worst season in 20 years for Liverpool, on the field and at the bank, where the club's American owners have overstretched the debt.

It seems to me that you have overstretched the attachment of the achilles tendon to the back of the heel, and that needs care.

To watch people die?" With the coastguard overstretched and the EU doing very little to help, the fishermen are the last line of support for boats that get into trouble, and they get little or no support.

And while many who receive food stamps also fall back on the country's network of food pantries, the organizations behind the pantries have been massively overstretched in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse.

It is recognized that services for the newborn will also likely be critically overstretched in the face of the next influenza pandemic.

The Syrian military, overstretched by the civil war, has not retaliated, and it was not clear whether the embattled Syrian leader would choose to take action this time.

By the time it's too dark to see, 90 minutes have passed and "En Atendant" feels overstretched, but the formal beauty of the movement and the music redeem it, resisting time and death.