Sentence examples for severely stretched from inspiring English sources

New York's court budget is already severely stretched.

The Afghan Army's finest fighters, they number only 20,000 and are severely stretched.

Military detectives are severely stretched by the number of inquiries into allegations that British soldiers killed or mistreated Iraqi civilians.

But the flood of migrants has severely stretched health and education services in the poor state of Roraima.

I know that resources are severely stretched, but the consequences of ignoring the problem are too awful to contemplate.

With only 1,600 highly trained special agents in the bureau, the Iraq mandate has severely stretched the service.

If Europe had to cover Spain's borrowing needs for the next three years under a full sovereign bailout, the effort would severely stretch the euro zone's only recently bolstered rescue funds, especially if Ireland and Portugal needed extra help before they could return to the markets, as seems likely.

However, uprisings erupted in 115 AD in the occupied Parthian territories, while a major Jewish revolt broke out in Roman territory, severely stretching Roman military resources.

"Before the hostilities began, health facilities were severely over stretched mainly as a result of the siege of Gaza," the WHO said.

Roman and Sharon argue that this pattern arises because when the sheet is stretched severely, it becomes geometrically impossible to take up all the slack with ruffles of similar sizes.

The project is part of a growing trend to find cheap, low-tech solutions to medical problems, especially in developing countries where disease outbreaks can severely test already stretched health budgets, experts said.