Sentence examples for so overstretched that from inspiring English sources

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

In Paris, the police fear they will be so overstretched that they have asked the government to close huge and popular "fan zones" for some matches.

We read about pensioners dying of malnutrition in hospitals and of nursing staff so overstretched that they neglect the basic care needs of the elderly.

The police force responsible for guarding the UK's nuclear weapons bases and other key military facilities is so overstretched that current staffing levels are "not sustainable" without risking security, according to an official report.

One consultant jokes that it is getting as hard to fire people in China as in France".China's labour market is so overstretched that all the high-quality labour has been exhausted, you have to hire people with lesser qualifications, and then quality becomes a problem," says Alain Deurwaerder, who until recently ran a factory in Thailand for Ducati, an Italian motorbike-maker.

"I flew in from Buffalo this morning and when you said that we are working ourselves to death, I thought, 'That is my life!'" Another tells her how she's so overstretched that "I went to work last week and didn't realise until I got there that I had forgotten to put on my skirt!

United States military officials said the American military was so overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan that it had no advanced helicopters to give to Pakistan.

US and UK troops are so overstretched, the argument goes, that they would not be able to sustain occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan were it not for the private military and security companies operating alongside them.

A defense official argued that Pakistan's army is so overstretched — from flood relief and 19 months of sustained combat that has caused thousands of Pakistani casualties — that it cannot possibly undertake any more operations.

The magnitude of the AIDS-orphaned children crisis in sub-Saharan Africa has so overstretched the resource of most families that the collapse of fostering in the sub-region seems imminent (UNICEF, 2003), fueling the need for a complementary/alternative care.

That rota was relentless and I had felt so overstretched.