Sentence examples for overstretched with from inspiring English sources

Consumers are overstretched, with 21.5% of household income going to service debts.

Feltham was overstretched, with poor industrial relations and a demoralised staff.

Many local CAMHS services are severely overstretched, with long waiting times and high thresholds for treatment".

They found that Albert Morehead, overstretched with other work, had yielded to this writer after 29 years at the helm.

Like a homeowner overstretched with a big mortgage on an underwater property, some bondholders whispered back then that the company might have to file for Chapter 11.

Consumers, eager to jump on the housing ladder after seeing prices double over the previous decade, overstretched with housing loans they could barely afford.

The Obama administration is already overstretched dealing with the global economic crisis, two wars, U.S. unemployment and a host of other issues.

But experts at home say that the country has overstretched itself with deployments abroad, including roughly 1,600 troops in Afghanistan, up from around 1,200 in September, and five years of playing a supporting role in Iraq, which it recently completed.

With firefighters overstretched and saddled with aging equipment, volunteers were sometimes forced to pitch in to save villages from approaching fires.

A new chief executive and some dramatic curtailing of projects with which the company had overstretched itself, along with some clever choices in licensing new ranges, brought Lego back from the brink, he added.

The agency is already overstretched from dealing with humanitarian crises in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria, as well the ongoing challenge posed by H7N9 and MERS.