The EFCC had also begged the court to send them to prison custody till the time the ruling would be delivered owing to what it called overstretch of its detention facilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguard News] Reference

Its army is in overstretch, with some tales of poor morale floating about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomorrow Is Always Too Late] Reference

We get a few ritual whimpers about "overstretch" and then Liam crawls back in his box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing the plot] Reference

In terms of "overstretch," the report says, "the tank of goodwill now runs on vapour; many experienced staff are talking of leaving."'.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Britain: Our forces can't carry on like this, says General Sir Richard Dannatt] Reference

The fact of the matter is that our armed forces are already in a state of 'overstretch'and it would be impossible for us to do even if we wanted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britain Should Invade Says Zimbabwe Cleric] Reference

Better that than the unremitting scattergun approach that relies on the constant, tedious repetition of the sacred mantras "overstretch" and "underfunding".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

It was important not to overstretch the resources of the SA.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Its message was that the United States was suffering from imperial 'overstretch.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Makes the World Go Round?] Reference

Yet calling on the UN to police both hotspots seems a recipe for dangerous overstretch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanne Nossel: The Lebanon Crisis: UN to the Rescue?] Reference

Lacking flexibility, it will be difficult for you to overstretch to the point of injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lauren Cahn: Yoga Bunk: Debunked] Reference

To say mopped the floor and he still hasn't won the nomination is a bot of an overstretch no?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Campaign Emails Out "Electability" Power-Point To All House Dems] Reference

Instead of suffering from military overstretch, the United States is cutting itself some slack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Worry, America] Reference

Eventually even the military became aware of the tremendous burden caused by imperial overstretch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Nye: Who Caused the End of the Cold War?] Reference

En empire whose foreign policy is based on full-spectrum dominance and imperial overstretch and.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007] Reference

No, I do not care about Army overstretch, Imperialism, or any other pesky things that get in my way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yep, Bush Will Veto Any Antiwar Measures By Congressional Dems On Iraq -- And Iran] Reference

That brings us back, I'm sorry to say, to the "imperial overstretch" remarks I made some 20 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Power Is on the Wane] Reference

Will America succumb to the same imperial overstretch as the Roman, Dutch, Spanish, Soviet, and British?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blake Fleetwood: How Bush Screwed Our Thanksgiving] Reference

Like America's recent experience in Iraq, the conflict made a great power fearful of imperial overstretch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Center Could Not Hold] Reference

Military overstretch, debt, political corruption and the rise of rival global powers are often cited as indicators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hussain Abdul-Hussain: America's Unjustified Fears] Reference

And "stretching definitely can hurt people if you overstretch; people do it all the time if they force the stretch.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jon LaPook: Stretching: The Truth] Reference

And he puts out TomDispatch, an imperial watchdog site that's an indispensable guide to our economic and military overstretch.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: Euro-Red Baiting] Reference

It should be a humane and progressive approach, but one which obviously does not overstretch our resources and infrastructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to business breakfast at the Royal Africa Society and Commonwealth] Reference

"It should be a humane and progressive approach, but one which obviously does not overstretch our resources and infrastructure.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Will America succumb to the same imperial overstretch as the Roman, Dutch, Spanish, Soviet, and British Empires? [email protected].    From Wordnik.com.  [Blake Fleetwood: BBC Poll: The US is in the Toilet - Thanks George, You Really Did It Now!] Reference

In terms of 'overstretch,' the report says, 'the tank of goodwill now runs on vapour; many experienced staff are talking of leaving.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Britain: Our forces can't carry on like this, says General Sir Richard Dannatt] Reference

Talking about the overstretch on U.S. troops, the Selective Service System is planning it test the draft system, in case it's ever needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2006] Reference

Sanco was working from the premise that the country's disadvantaged communities had to be united: "We don't want to overstretch our resources".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Reagan military buildup and the deficits that went with it, he warned, had brought the United States to the point of "imperial overstretch.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marinating in 'Decline'] Reference

He concedes that -- with America in imperial overstretch and the economies of India and China surging ahead -- the era of U.S. dominance is over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twilight of Supremacy] Reference

He concedes that – with America in imperial overstretch and the economies of India and China surging ahead – the era of U.S. dominance is over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twilight of Supremacy] Reference

Once a nation goes this way, its fate is the same as all others that tried - "isolation, overstretch, the uniting of forces opposed to imperialism, and bankruptcy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic] Reference

So much of America's budget is for militarism that the Pentagon faces overstretch while the nation is so indebted it's effectively a deadbeat with amounts impossible to repay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism:" The Economic Strategy of Imperial America] Reference