Sentence examples for overstretched through from inspiring English sources

France's plea followed an assessment that its security services were overstretched through French military operations in the Sahel and peacekeeping in Lebanon, as well as in the fight against Isis in Syria and Iraq, Mr Le Drian said.

He has demanded that soldiers help overstretched firefighting brigades and has walked through smoldering villages, consoling residents and promising them new homes by fall.

I have patients with colons so overstretched that a tube must be inserted through the abdomen so stool can be flushed out.

The murder of Mr Meads has once again highlighted broader concerns over patients given care in the community falling through the net - and overstretched professionals failing to recognise the signs of increasing instability.

Gold and Sullivan have provided unyielding financial backing to Bruce through his four-year reign though, having overstretched in the summer, Sullivan outlined last month what the implications would be if they spent again next month and failed to stay up.

Tens of thousands of athletes must be squired to scattered events through some of the worst traffic in the Americas.The police, already overstretched, must keep the Olympians safe from some of Latin America's most brazen criminals they committed over 2,000 murders in the city itself last year.

Our military is overstretched.

Naturally, it is overstretched.

Teachers are horribly overstretched.

The army was overstretched.

The cutbacks to date have been achieved through natural wastage in an environment with high turnover as staff grow increasingly overstretched and demoralised by their working conditions.