Sentence examples for which are overstretched from inspiring English sources

Mr Martin has also promised a national child-care programme, perhaps modelled on Quebec's system, and an extra 5,000 troops for the armed forces, which are overstretched by peacekeeping duties.

While the changes do not appear to involve any major retrenchment in the nation's counterinsurgency strategy, they are the first sign of the strain the countrywide flooding has put on Pakistan's armed forces, which are overstretched in dealing with a virulent insurgency.

"Sometimes it seems about to snap like a bow which is overstretched or submitted to pressures which are too often partisan".

It can refer to machinery that is overused without proper servicing, but can also apply to situations in which people are overstretched.

Public hospitals, which must offer free care to the poor, are overstretched, after years of past underinvestment.

UNICEF uses a strategic approach for identifying strategic partners which is however constrained by the limited number of NGOs; there is a risk that the capacities of partners are overstretched in individual projects.

"In the short term, they are overstretched in terms of lack of housing, and trying to come to grips with the novelty of the situation, which is obviously overpowering".

Experimental data emphasize the importance of unloading the small-aerated lung [ 3], which receives most of ventilation, because strain hotspots concentrate as much as four times more in alveolar walls of aerated units that are overstretched.

Primary care doctors already are overstretched.

"The trouble is that doctors are overstretched.

But mental-health services for children are overstretched.