Sentence examples for stretched at best from inspiring English sources

France is muttering about delaying enlargement until the Poles are ready a long time hence.It is far too early to damn Mr Miller's government, but its Herculean task has left it looking stretched, at best.

But China's position in respect to its claim looks stretched at best as most of them are very far away from Hainan, the nearest Chinese territory hospitable to people.

Without the scholarship, Ms. Ottley said, college for her children would be a stretch at best.

While Varlamov's comparison to political protests is a stretch at best, it does highlight Russia's current laws and how they might be misused in the future.

"Even if what you're saying is true — that somehow you could foresee the financial calamity, which is, I would say, a stretch at best — when you became governor, you didn't protect the people from the calamity.

But those graphs, based on tweets and other transient forms of information, are a stretch at best.

Arguing that a couple hundred (or even thousand) people watching an illegal stream will ruin the company is a stretch at best.

"For him to use Pittsburgh as the example, I can only say that it was a far stretch at best".

If there is any tidbit of actual benefit to Big Brother (which is a real stretch at best), it would be that the show brought forth just a taste, no in fact the tip of the iceberg, of what is institutionalized racism in America.

He called Judge Weinstein's interpretation of international law "at best, a stretch".

Writing for the Boston Globe last week, the brilliant commentator HDS Greenway argued that even if America's military might were not already stretched thin, it would at best only be capable of delaying Iran's nuclear program for a few years.