QUESTION: I understand the idea of overstretching our resources. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Turmes, who called the plan a "manipulation of politicians, media and the broader public," argued that the Commission was "overstretching" the EU's gas supply concerns while ignoring the bloc's near total dependence on oil for the transport sector. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As for the idea that it is "overstretching" to become as good as foreign flag carriers … give me a #@*\% break! ❋ Unknown (2008)
The heads of Britain's armed forces have expressed worries that the country's relatively modest intervention in Libya is overstretching a force already heavily committed in Afghanistan. ❋ Alistair MacDonald (2011)
Investors can take comfort Land Securities isn't overstretching itself. ❋ Ren (2011)
Pressure is growing, certainly in the United States, after all the Obama administration now faces a possible censure in Congress, and in Europe there is growing anxiety about the resources available, particularly in Britain, where there has been complaints from the First Sea Lord, and also from the second in command of the Air Force, about the danger of overstretching very limited resources, Joffe said. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Empires therefore always end of overstretching themselves, and in doing so hasten their own disintegration. ❋ Mahmood Delkhasteh (2011)
Some EBRD shareholders have expressed unease at the risk of overstretching from broadening the mandate of helping communist countries make the transition to market economies. ❋ Joe Parkinson (2011)
The hormone relaxin, which your body is producing to help your pelvis open up to deliver the baby, puts your muscles, tendons, and ligaments at risk of overstretching and injury if you try to lift anything too heavy. ❋ Alison J. Sweeney (2011)
The pro-business FDP has spent most of the year mired in personnel discussions and disputes about the right way to deal with the euro zone's debt crisis without overstretching Germany's commitments to rescue efforts. ❋ Bernd Radowitz (2011)
In a March guest op-ed jointly penned for the Wall Street Journal, Schmidt and Seidenberg said they agreed that the federal government should abstain from overstretching rules in the fast-growing broadband industry. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Clinton did the same thing in her campaign, and while you can argue that it is more the fault of the campaign than the candidate, we see that overstretching the bounds of loyalty does not always yield the best of results. ne, Pa. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He thinks that Israel's interests are best served by the US aggressing Iraq and overstretching its military to the point where it could not confront Iran, who has much harsher rhetoric towards Israel, even if it needed to. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Six weeks before the Games, meanwhile, overstretching, I strained my right hamstring. ❋ Apolo Ohno (2010)
