Sentence examples for stretch the issue from inspiring English sources

Although it may seem like a stretch, the issue of military spouse employment is, at its core, about the quality of our military.

"The first minister should not have stretched the issue out over the last week and acted more decisively at an earlier stage". Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie said the SNP government had "bowed to the inevitable".

But even resolutions about serious issues stretch the notion of Congress as a legislative body.

These are the moments when an animal's skills are fully stretched – when the issue is life or death.

How far class-action procedures "can be stretched is the issue in the gigantic class action against Wal-Mart now before the Supreme Court," Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel, ruling against class-action treatment.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige could preserve state flexibility by issuing interpretive regulations that stretch the legislation's literal provisions.

He doesn't seem to think the stretch was the issue.

We used lengths of twine to represent connections between different stakeholders in a complex environmental issue, stretching the twine between pictures of the stakeholders to create a physical map.

Like Sheikh, Vucetaj lamented on waxing's issue of stretching the skin.

User-related product issues certainly stretched the resources of Bitlock.

Known until 1999 as man of the year, the magazine's annual issue has occasionally stretched the definition of person, putting both "you" and "whistleblowers" on the cover in recent years.