Sentence examples for strained beyond capacity from inspiring English sources

Because the Nazis sent four of five arriving Jews directly to their death, the extermination camp was strained beyond capacity.

Metro Manila's funeral parlours were strained beyond capacity, and hundreds of unidentified or unclaimed bodies were interred in mass burials.

Yet despite being strained beyond capacity, Kabul seems to have lost none of its attraction to the people flocking here.

It is to replace two older airports — Tegel in the west and Schönefeld in the east — which were strained beyond capacity as the reunified city established itself as a tourist destination.

A large number of the 68,000 state residents undergoing treatment would have to find treatment at centers far from their homes, while the state's remaining capacity would be strained beyond the breaking point.

"Our friendship has been strained beyond breaking point.

Lebanon's resources are strained beyond reason.

That system is deteriorating, and is now strained to capacity.

Webster thinks that among other things, the protests just strained the cops' capacity.

The scale of the refugee crisis was straining the capacity of humanitarian organisations, said Guterres.

Its space requirements strain the capacity of a typical urban apartment.