Sentence examples for severely overstretched from inspiring English sources

Displacement stands at an all-time high, while the humanitarian system is severely overstretched.

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

Bear in mind that the I.R.S. is already severely overstretched; for years Congress has starved the agency of resources, and officials privately concede that it is doing an increasingly poor job of policing tax evasion.

The islands' capacity to take in migrants has been severely overstretched.

Despite finding money for this huge investment in the prison system, the Ministry of Justice has pledged just £40m in extra funding for the severely overstretched probation service, at a time when probation budgets are being cut by an estimated £60m in 2008-2009, cuthathareare therefore only partially rescinded by this "extra" funding.

In this, he has had the support of all the main political parties in Britain, though some politicians, including a number in his own Conservative Party, have questioned how long Britain, with a $50 billion defense budget that is already severely overstretched, can continue to make such substantial outlays on faraway, thinly populated islands with scant strategic value.

This meant that when ambulances arrived with the most severely injured victims, the ED was already overstretched – as was the case in small hospitals near the sites of the Madrid bombings [ 18].

Our military is overstretched.

Naturally, it is overstretched.

Teachers are horribly overstretched.

The army was overstretched.