| It is a twentieth-century classic, and besides, by the 1970s she was too overextended to complete such an assignment. |
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| History is replete with overextended conquerors, who suffered from invincibility complexes, ultimately becoming conquered themselves. |
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| Even less realistic is the expectation that an already overextended government could do it even if it wanted to. |
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| It was inevitable, because highly leveraged and overextended lenders and speculators lead to eventual ruin. |
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| Hospitals in this city are operating without doctors, with overextended nursing staffs and interns keeping most hospitals open. |
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| Problems arise because drug names sound alike, prescriptions are illegible and pharmacists are overextended. |
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| We overextended our defense a little bit but I think our athleticism paid off. |
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| If your staff is overworked or overextended, it will inevitably show in their attitudes toward customers. |
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| But at times I found the exposition a bit overextended and reiterative and the family clashes underdramatized. |
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| Their awkwardness, overextended maturity, mercurial temperaments, and easy companionship were all spot on. |
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| Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans. |
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| Without such help his situation proved impossible, for he was greatly overextended. |
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| The one thing you don't want to do is let growth overwhelm your business to such an extent that you are overextended. |
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| I wonder what church would look like in our local communities if church was a place where an overextended and tired people could find rest and refueling. |
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| Some retirees were poking around, along with an overextended mother and the children who overextend her. |
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| This eases the burden on already overextended health systems and providers. |
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| The risks to the overextended are worrisome, as the patterns of behaviours they have adopted are clearly linked to poor health outcomes. |
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| How much money can our hard-pressed, overextended military expect in tomorrow's budget? |
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| To begin with, the government has overextended our commitments to peacekeeping while simultaneously cutting back on the defence budget. |
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| We are allowing resources to disappear, and our personnel is being overextended. |
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| There was the young couple who overextended themselves to get a mortgage and now have new baby. |
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| It in no way relieves the strain on our overextended military personnel. |
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| Yet many western farmers had overextended themselves during the war to produce as much as they could for the war effort. |
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| The rivalry was bitter and lasted until the South Shore Railway, overextended financially, went into liquidation. |
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| In many hospitals, labor pain management options are limited to epidurals, parenteral analgesics, or rudimentary labor support from overextended nurses. |
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| The American Depression worsened when banking panics swept undiversified and overextended rural banks and the Federal Reserve failed to intervene. |
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| Her shoulders were overextended, which could cause brachial nerve damage. |
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| But it is also possible that a major economic adjustment in the US is triggered simply by the sheer financial exhaustion of America's overextended consumers. |
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| Personally I might just chalk it up for now as the profit-taking that develops with month-end quickly approaching for an oil market that has overextended itself to the upside. |
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| By early 1918, it was clear that Borden could not meet Canada's overextended military commitments and still exempt the nation's farmers from military service. |
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| Many had become overextended with debt during the falling cotton prices of the difficult years of the late 19th century. |
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| First, the financial crash meant some troubled Western joint-venture partners, and some local partners that had overextended themselves with acquisitions, began to tire of the capital injections required to sustain growth. |
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| Although there are a large number of highly conscientious and dedicated health care professionals working within Correctional Service Canada, they're commonly overextended, with few resources and limited support staff. |
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| It is no match for the existing and overextended capacities within existing public or private organizations, the document states. |
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| While copper, and aluminum, are showing signs of being overextended, nickel markets continue to show great strength. |
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| These easy victories over unprepared US and European opponents left Japan overconfident, as well as overextended. |
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| Contracting, for instance, is often overextended to cover duties that are difficult to specify in advance and inherently judgmental and governmental in nature. |
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| The sprawling, overextended empire of Corus Bancshares loans, many of them in Florida, is attracting interest from major distressed debt investors. |
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| The institution has to be stable and well-funded so it's not overextended. |
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| In a way, it's easier to stop doing something rather than piling lots of new initiatives or personal goals on your already overextended to-do list. |
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| Despite the best, or worst, efforts of those overextended hedgies and subprime-sters, it did, but not as high as hems, and it yo-yoed squeamishly along the way. |
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| The inspiration for such an action seems to have been the overextended nature of the Norman troops, thus preventing William from exercising his own power in the area. |
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| The company which massively overextended itself by making a string of acquisitions took over the Birmingham businesses of entrepreneurs Richard Graves and John Nolan. |
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