Sentence examples for stretched by its from inspiring English sources
"This isn't about merely taking on Syria but taking on [its allies] Russia and Iran as well," he added.The Turkish army is already stretched by its 28-year war against rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which killed eight Turkish soldiers last week in an attack mounted from its mountain bases in northern Iraq.
This has been the pattern since the first big intervention in East Timor, in 1999, which Australia led and for which it provided more than half the troops.Australia, a country of only 20m people, is already stretched by its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is why France, Britain and the UN are urging America to help pacify its former colony, as they have theirs.America may be stretched by its military commitments in other parts of the world, but an intervention in Liberia need not require too many American soldiers.
Even Aristotle, he of the outsize brain inside a wide bulging brow ("a vessel stretched by its contents"), although he tries to question and rationalise, sees something otherworldly in his pupil: "There was a moment in which the boy and the beast seemed like initiates, who have exchanged in secret a world of power".
While stimulation continues, it is then stretched by 15% of its optimum length, and held in this stretched position.
But this year the company, stretched by debt, lost its top-rung AAA credit rating.
The composite films could be stretched by 20% of its initial length with 54 wt % of ENR in it and it could also be directly used as a conductive wire for an LED lamp with a conductivity of 157 S m−1.
Hu's team looked for signs of hydrogen, a signature of star formation, suitably stretched by redshift during its passage across the universe.
Then, the strips were stretched by 10% of its length ×4 consecutive times, and the passive force per cross-section of muscle (in kN/m) was determined.
To assess the force-length relationship, myobundle was stretched by 2% of its culture length then stimulated by a 40 V/cm, 10 ms electrical pulse using a pair of platinum electrodes and the twitch force was recorded.
At the beginning of December 2012, when the velocity began to gradually decrease, the baseline seemed to have stretched by approximately 25%% of its total deformation (Fig. 3b).
