By 1995, Dickmanns's car was able to drive on the Autobahn from Munich to Odense, Denmark, going up to a hundred miles at a stretch without assistance.
Struggles and Tears With five children to feed and educate, three of them teenagers, Florence Dawson, 42, became a master at stretching a public assistance dollar: buying flour, rice and beans in bulk; hunting down scholarships and summer jobs for the older children; and falling back on the food pantry or her church when necessary.
Now she stretches $231 in public assistance every two weeks and $350 in food stamps each month to raise her family.
Oman subsequently purchased from British Aerospace a fleet of 15 Hawk jets, which it has been operating since the 1980s.The sultanate has a long history of association with the British military and defence industry, which stretches back to military assistance provided by the UK to overcome a rebellion in the north of Oman, in the late 1950s.
The continually increasing number of people in need of assistance is stretching UNICEF's resources.
Should Spain need assistance, it will stretch the resources of the EFSF, perhaps beyond its current limits.
Now imagine swarms of aircraft all trying to land together on a small stretch of water with no assistance and no gizmos.
With Russia and China blocking United Nations measures that could open the way for military action, the countries lined up against the government of President Bashar al-Assad sought to bolster Syria's beleaguered opposition through means that seemed to stretch the definition of humanitarian assistance and blur the line between so-called lethal and nonlethal support.
As a report summaries of Snap participation rates from the US department of agriculture (which administers the program) points out: When eligible individuals do not participate, they lose out on nutrition assistance that could stretch their food dollars at the grocery store, and their communities lose out on the economic benefits provided by new Snap dollars flowing into local markets.
She ignored the woman stretching her arm out for assistance and stood up to see what had drawn the crowd.
