He acknowledged that Vivendi's cash flow was "stretched" but rejected suggestions that the company was close to collapse.
They sharpen at the sight of blood, stretch at the suggestion of sex, even do the heavy-lifting when it's time to feed.
In which connection, the general knowingness of O'Porter's tone strangely didn't stretch to her suggestion that a particular bit of intricate de-stitching was best done "in front of the TV while watching something you can half-concentrate on".
While it's a stretch to call the suggestion that Obama projects an air of self-satisfaction bigoted, it may at least reflect a culture gap: last April, after Maureen Dowd wrote a column criticizing Obama for undermining her husband's mystique, a blog riposte, circulated widely on the Internet, was titled "The White Lady Just Doesn't Get It".
Over the course of an intense tug of war that stretched over 18 months, suggestions for suitable women's names poured in from employees of the museum and from local citizens, who named authors, suffragists, teachers and poets, all Jewish women who they felt were worthy of the honor.
Fahey dismissed suggestions that Usada stretched statute limitations under WADA's rules and exceeded its authority.
As Peter Oborne pointed out in his book Wounded Tiger, the Pakistani team is often subjected to the most ludicrous stereotyping, which has stretched as far as the suggestions, widespread at the time, that certain members of their 2007 World Cup team may have had a hand in the death of their coach Bob Woolmer.
The broadcasters have promoted their globe-trotting troupes lately, and they are sensitive to suggestions that they are stretched too thin.
The nerves of sixth formers and their families have also been stretched by exam regulator Ofqual's suggestions of greater "volatility" in this year's results.
The monthly £4 allowance he received from his father would not stretch far, but there was no suggestion of working for a living.
