Sentence examples for was stretched through from inspiring English sources

But the country was stretched through a limbo of waiting for official confirmation, and confronted with shocking moves by SCAF, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which dissolved the new parliament, instituted martial powers of arrest, and seized control of the budget and national security.

I can answer simple questions of fact but I am stretched through the election".

There are obvious charms in a large painted-room installation that includes a big, friendly horse being stretched through a real wall and the enormous, scarf-covered head of a woman that evokes Russian nesting dolls.

Even though what we consider the limit of the human has been stretched through intoxication or technology, and is now difficult to define or establish, we are still anxious about gene manipulation.

That's why a person under anesthesia, whose nerves are quieted, can be stretched through a full range of motion with no resistance.

The director and writers have all toiled in television's laugh factory (Mr. Corbett is an alumnus of "Mystery Science Theater 3000"), and the movie plays like a half-hour sitcom episode that has been stretched — principally through Mr. Murphy's walking and talking — to feature-length running time.

The story has been stretched like taffy through the years, and depending on who is doing the telling, Rendell threw snowballs himself, paid a guy to bean Dallas Coach Jimmy Johnson or did nothing at all.

The galaxy will be stretched each time it passes through the Milky Way until eventually it forms a ring.

By associating a complex 3D object to a curve-pair, the object can be stretched, bended, and twisted intuitively through manipulating the curve-pair.

For type I, the event presents a short duration and greater amplitude, which suggest that the passing protein is stretched into a larger volume through the nanopore.

The spectrograph was able to pick apart the weak infrared light and establish the degree to which it had been stretched on its long journey through space and time by the expansion of the Universe.