| As the nation's overburdened and underfunded emergency rooms are pushed to the brink, our medical safety net is starting to unravel. |
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| When we are all overburdened with worries in our daily life, a real entertainer is a welcome relief. |
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| At a time when federal courts are already overburdened, it will make case backlogs even longer. |
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| Inmates feel isolated and are already overburdened by the tension of courts and hearings. |
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| Several of the administrators were also new, and just as overburdened by the remaining seven teacher vacancies. |
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| Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin. |
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| These courts are already overburdened with cases and the influx of new lawsuits will result in cases taking many years to reach trial. |
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| Already overburdened staff have to focus more heavily on information assurance versus asset protection. |
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| He said the measures would place further pressure on the already overburdened public hospital system. |
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| True, teachers in the public school system are often overburdened, but many still do a great teaching job. |
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| Among his many inventions was a machine gun so overburdened with gadgets that it was unsuitable for any purpose other than mechanical curiosity. |
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| Unfortunately, I have never procured an overburdened wage package, so monetary wisecracks have not been part of my repertoire. |
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| All of 11 years old, Nikosi comes across by turn as wise, winsome, overburdened, and sometimes desolate. |
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| Second, the solution did not tax an already overburdened division transportation resource. |
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| Doctors are already in critically short supply and overburdened nurses often supply the only health care available. |
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| The overburdened, under-financed hospital was itself an unnerving environment for the meeting. |
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| This colt came out on top in gritty style in a hot maiden race at Haydock last time and does not look overburdened on his handicap debut. |
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| Many delegations saw the steering groups as an extra layer in an already overburdened hierarchy. |
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| They also say they will avoid local services being overburdened by bussing the youngsters into Hull. |
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| Police are poorly paid, investigators and prosecutors are too few and overburdened, and there are not enough courts, judges, or jails. |
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| It is little wonder then that officials have long pushed for mergers to clean up the overburdened system. |
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| Probation officers that I have dealt with are overburdened, overworked and burned out. |
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| It's just hard luck if you are an elderly person who doesn't move that quickly, or some tired and overburdened shopper. |
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| According to his account, he was overburdened and overwhelmed by the tasks imposed on him, many of which he regarded as pointless. |
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| While the idea of people telling their stories is attractive in theory, in practice the courts are overburdened as it is. |
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| The courts are not overburdened with applications in this field. |
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| It handles the material so well that the student is not overburdened. |
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| Physicians are overburdened by paperwork and government regulations. |
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| In a political age not overburdened with gaiety and good sense, he brought us wit, charm, judgment, principle and decency. |
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| Yes, dear panel, we in the military, especially the lower ranks, are overdue, overburdened, and definitely underpaid. |
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| Social work staff say they are overburdened with casework and worried about not being able to give heroin addicts in the drug court enough support. |
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| Households and firms in Europe's periphery are overburdened with debt, workers' wages squeezed and banks in no mood to lend. |
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| Both have a record of backing civic projects in a city not overburdened with them. |
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| The bottom line is that our people's health is declining and our system is overburdened. |
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| As you all know, this situation has sorely overburdened the public budget and further increased our enormous reliance on international support. |
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| It would also risk being overburdened with work because of its wide scope and would duplicate the work of other institutions. |
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| In meetings and conversations with formators one becomes aware that many of them feel overburdened in their work. |
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| However, whatever we do, we should not overburden the producer because he has already been considerably overburdened. |
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| If you are a caregiver, it's important to look after yourself, because it is far too easy to become overburdened and exhausted. |
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| I think that the teaching space is a big problem, the rooms, laboratories and FEAA library are overburdened. |
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| In low-income countries which were already suffering from a lack of health care workers, health care systems are overburdened. |
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| Handiwork assistance: An aged woman is overburdened with the care of her garden. |
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| These incidents have served to make the public more aware of how fragile, aging, and overburdened their drinking water systems truly are. |
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| When such businesses decide to construct a new facility, they are often overburdened and already behind schedule. |
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| Existing healthcare facilities are generally overburdened and poorly equipped, and the number of qualified medical personnel is inadequate. |
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| Analyzing and grading writing can be difficult for teachers who are already overburdened with their various education and non-education assignments. |
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| While the coach is not overburdened with options, Williams is almost sure to shake up his starting XV for next weekend's match if only because a change is as good as a rest. |
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| And so a career that promised so much looks destined to be overburdened by heartbreak and leg breaks. |
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| There are no small plates in these dining rooms, only platters overburdened with countrified diet demolishers like biscuits and gravy, fried chicken and banana cream pie. |
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| Is it a network of overburdened, often dehumanizing state institutions or community-based youth shelters that can become a solid compass point for young people and help them rejoin the ranks of society as active members? |
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| The turning point in his life came in 1997 in a dreary car park at a motorway service station. In the pouring rain, he helped an overburdened wife to lift her paraplegic husband into a car. |
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| Health professionals will ultimately bear the responsibility for communication on climate change and health, even if they are already overburdened. |
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| The word is often used to refer to texts that are overburdened with instructive or factual matter to the exclusion of graceful and pleasing detail so that they are pompously dull and erudite. |
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| The system must be reconfigured so as to break it down into separately served units of say, 500 to 1 000 subscribers, in order to ensure that the arterial routes are not overburdened at times of peak demand. |
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| And was his overburdened K. G. B. paymaster, laboring in some squalid East End flat with the blinds down, perhaps behindhand with his photographing? |
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| Impoverished, overburdened with barriers that prevent the circulation of her goods but are no longer able to afford her protection, our disunited Europe marches towards her end. |
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| In addition, the rundown and overburdened state of the institutions supposed to forge the future, such as schools and universities, adds to human insecurity and adds to democratic disenchantment. |
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| If a Native American is raped or assaulted by a non-Indian, she must plead for justice to already overburdened United States attorneys who are often hundreds of miles away. |
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| Nor was he overburdened with either conscience or conviction. |
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| But as the number of orphans has inexorably risen, extended families become overburdened with children, and child-headed households are becoming increasingly common. |
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| Social workers, because they are overburdened, do not have the time to figure out what is going on with immigrant women, for example to screen appropriately for violence and abuse. |
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| The Order of Malta seeks to alleviate the strain placed upon the few overburdened workers available and to actively engage the population in their own health. |
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| The health facilities of the Agency, in particular its emergency and rehabilitation services, were overburdened owing to the ever-increasing number of maimed and injured. |
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| Parents whose children attended schools during their displacement in the North feared that their children would be deprived of access to education upon return since the few schools in the south were already overburdened. |
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| He wished to know what the four languages in question were, how the policy had been adopted and whether it overburdened children in their studies. |
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| The experts agreed that although the working groups of the CCQM will inevitably be involved to some extent in the review of CMCs, they should not become overburdened with administrative activities. |
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| From this point of view, I believe that the procedures of the ICC should be more effective, efficient and accountable and should not be overburdened. |
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| This section of M-4 is another milestone in upgrading and decongesting the country's overburdened transport infrastructure. |
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| Whatever it may be, the costs for undertaking the voyages had not overburdened the Ming treasury. |
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| Taxes were remitted so that vagrant farmers could return home, especially in the overburdened Yangtze River Delta. |
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| Before using restorative justice programs, retailers most often would call police and navigate an already overburdened criminal justice system. |
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| What started as a means of relieving pressure on the overburdened airframes has turned into a major transportation endeavor, totaling nearly 700 truck movements. |
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| More recently, the 2014 Ebola outbreak overburdened the weak healthcare infrastructure, leading to more deaths from medical neglect than Ebola itself. |
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| I wrote in this column about a straight-talking, no-nonsense Yorkie friend who was worried that, at the age of 86, the Queen was overburdened with her public duties. |
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