Sentence examples for was stretched too far from inspiring English sources

All it might take is to restore Cesc Fabregas, whose dodgy hamstring was stretched too far by attempting to play too soon, against Barcelona last week.

There is a belief that a well-resourced operation was stretched too far by a coordinated plan hatched by known troublemakers.

Even without imposition and the issues surrounding contracts, there was always going to come a time when the system was stretched too far.

"The maintenance intervals were stretched, and they were stretched too far," he said.

But some agricultural economists believe the food security argument has been stretched too far.

You're saying it's not that wars cost a lot, or Paul Kennedy wasn't right that we would be stretched too far by military expenditures.

This bit also falls flat when it is stretched too far and re-enacted as a skit.

Like the Wyndham Lewis of Blast! (although the analogy can't be stretched too far), he and his fellow campaigners were deliberately sending shockwaves through the establishment.

It is therefore not too hard to imagine a world, decades hence, in which emissions are falling but temperatures are rising steeply and the ability to adapt to them has been stretched too far.

When that happens, some of the elastic energy from the stretching of the bonds is converted to sound (think of the noise that occurs when a rubber band is stretched too far and breaks).

Again, however, matters are stretched too far, and even I refused to buy the notion that Roy would enlist his daughter's help in a major shakedown and thus imperil her life.