Sentence examples for stretched to the maximum from inspiring English sources

The food distribution systems are stretched to the maximum".

But the nonprofit sector and local government have been stretched to the maximum".

"I've experienced exactly what it is like to live in a town where public services have been stretched to the maximum due to population increase.

"Agriculture was the main livelihood for rural households before the crisis and it is still producing to a certain extent, but it is stretched to the maximum and farmers have largely exhausted their capacity to cope," he said.

Their IT teams are being stretched to the maximum as they spend 60% of their time just keeping current systems working.

"Syria's basic public services, including education, have been stretched to the maximum," said Hanaa Singer, UNICEF Representative in Syria.

Composite fibers were melt-spun using a plunger-type extrusion system, followed by stretching to the maximum draw ratio using a Godet setup.

One measurement was taken, with the participant stretching to the maximum height.

Ivars Godmanis (ALDE, LV) acknowledged that the Commission's proposal stretches to "the maximum that was possible" in relation to the youth employment initiative, he wanted guarantees that the programmes which countries pledge to put into effect would go beyond political declarations.

Muscles were stimulated with 0.5 ms pulses delivered by an S48 stimulator (Grass Instruments, Braintree, MA) to platinum electrodes in the muscle chamber and stretched to the length giving maximum tetanic force (optimal length, L0).

One of the great lost innovators of the late 1960s, whose work always seems on the cusp of rediscovery, is Bill Bollinger, whose "Rope Piece" from 1968 consists of a pair of strands of hemp bolted to the floor and ceiling, stretched to the extreme and clamped together: maximum tension expressed with minimal means.