Dunfermline's squad will be stretched to the limit for Sunday's match.
We're seeing more hurricanes and flooding in the U.S., and I can tell you from personal experience that resources are always stretched to the limit for the charities that provide relief services.
"Traditional coping mechanisms are being stretched to the limit for many communities," said Mr. Sy.
There are also some wildly dramatic incidents at the end of the second volume and the start of the third, for instance that stretch credibility to the limit.
Both Pakistan and Indian-administered Kashmir have been affected, with rescue teams stretched to the limit, searching for survivors who have been stranded by the rising waters.
Some 2,000 Somalis are sitting together here in the heat, stretching to the limit their genius for talk in search of a central government for a nation that lacks one.
With signs of slowing growth in the United States and Europe, and government budgets and central bank balance sheets already stretched to the limit, the options for policy makers are dwindling.
Removing their child benefit will be a damaging blow for families already feeling stretched to the limit," she said.
But air cooling "has been stretched to the limit in its capacity for heat removal," says Suresh Garimella, a mechanical-engineering professor at Purdue.
These will be promoted, experts say, by combined electric-and-gas utilities whose electric systems are stretched to the limit by summer demand for cooling, while their gas systems sit idle.
"We're stretched to the limit," said David Widmark, information officer for the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center in Portland.
