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the overstretch
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To stretch too far
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He also inadvertently referenced one of the underlying reasons for the overstretch, suggesting there may need to be a "surge" of doctors to help treat the backlog of veterans.
In renewing the withdrawal plan, officials of the Defense Ministry said Mr. Brown was responding to an improved security situation in Basra, where most British troops are based, and to a call by the chiefs of Britain's forces for relief from the "overstretch" they say the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have imposed on British troops.
He is busted on such issues and not only with the pacifists who periodically "arrest" him in return for a crowd-funded bounty from ArrestBlair.org, which now stands at £7,414 $12,4388).The armed forces, stricken by the overstretch and consequent cuts wrought by Mr Blair's adventurism, also resent him; the Foreign Office distrusts him.
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A Save the Children official told the committee that the "overstretching of resources had created incentives for national authorities not to treat minors as children".
Kathleen Sebelius, the Democratic governor of Kansas, caught a little flak for saying the overstretching of the National Guard in Iraq had left too few volunteers to clean up after horrific tornados.
The numerical results show that flame radiation can induce another extinction limit at a low scalar dissipation rate (0.029 s−1), which is in addition to the well-known extinction limit caused by the overstretching of flame at a high scalar dissipation rate (18.4 −18.4
When the overstretching of open lung tissue outweighs the benefit from recruitment, PEEP redirects pulmonary blood flow and accentuates mechanical heterogeneity within the acutely injured lung.
Whereas binding to dsDNA is observed to stabilize the helical form, binding to ssDNA destabilizes the double helix and is manifested in the data as a decrease in either the melting force or the length of the overstretching plateau (24– 24).
According to senior defence sources, the severe overstretch in the UK armed forces, along with the economic downturn, means that this country will find it difficult to send substantial numbers of conventional forces in support of the Americans in future conflicts.
Americans currently serve 15-month tours, a consequence of the acute overstretch of the American army, but it means that commanders have time to learn and adapt.The state of state-buildingThe problem in Afghanistan is not so much the resurgence of the Taliban, but the weakness of the Afghan government.
That said, the scurrying around now as to "how to deal with this" worries me as all too typical of the imperial overstretch to which the United States is prone.
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