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"I am not a specialist but he overstretched his knee at the back when he made the volley [to score on Sunday], " said Wenger.

Overstretched borrowers were bound to start defaulting in large numbers once the housing bubble burst and unemployment began to rise.

Late on Sunday, he said he had accepted an offer from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to send in troops to relieve overstretched emergency crews.

And at least one ex-general says the money would be better spent on the overstretched conventional army.

A few signs suggest that overstretched companies are beginning to hire again.

Mayors all over the country are struggling with a lack of risk capital and overstretched personnel.

Yet domestic demand in places like Germany and Japan needs to pick up quite a bit more yet, if America's overstretched consumers trim back.

Overstretched banks and global insurers are not the only things that are "too big too fail" .

This trend will come at a time when the public health system in many countries is already vastly overstretched and underfunded.

It will be a major challenge to introduce mechanisms that do not over-burden already overstretched health systems.

One of the global economy's biggest problems has been its dependence on an overstretched U. S. consumer.

The researchers suggest that the smiles are accurate indicators of personality. The results should not be overstretched.

For example, as in Yubari, overstretched social services might have to get close to collapse before action is taken.

Banks' reluctance to lend as they strive to repair their overstretched balance-sheets is impairing the effectiveness of monetary policy.

So did Tanzania, whose overstretched civil service produces 2, 400 quarterly reports on projects a year.

Cole ticked off the dangers of doing an unmodified shoulder stand: muscle strains, overstretched ligaments and cervical-disk injuries.

Many fear that China's overstretched property market will collapse, leaving insupportable debts in its wake.

As Mr Takats points out, overstretched pension systems may spur retired people to run down their assets more aggressively than expected.

Bankers say Mr. Merckle also overstretched himself financially in recent years with highly leveraged acquisitions.

Interest rates will remain extremely low, helping overstretched borrowers to meet payments and to refinance loans.

NATO commanders acknowledge that Afghan security forces remain overstretched and under trained.

The public health system in many countries is already vastly overstretched and under-funded.

In Britain, cuts to an already overstretched defence budget are only being postponed until after next year's election.

Mr. Song said that 'overstretched public services' had led to the debt crisis in places like Greece.

The result was a court that is overstretched to the point of mutiny.

Democrats controlled Congress. Iraq was slipping into chaos, the army was overstretched and the Treasury was bleeding red ink.

The Chinese withdrew to Tibet, their superiority established but their supply lines overstretched, barely a fortnight after they had come.

As long as banks restrict lending while they strive to mend overstretched balance-sheets the economy will continue to wilt.

The military vehemently denies those accusations and says its forces are overstretched in the region.

Economies were overstretched in the pursuit of high growth, not totally aware of the pitfalls of global financial flows.

If you look at the hyperextended knee pictured at left, you can see that these tendons are overstretched.

The agencies say they are overstretched and underfunded and are appealing for more help from the international community.

British forces are overstretched and have struggled to adapt to modern counter-insurgency campaigns.

Fiscal positions in the west were often overstretched when the global financial crisis erupted.

Perhaps the market moves were simply a pull - back from overstretched levels .

Mr Isaias's meddling in Somalia was designed to keep Ethiopia off-kilter and overstretched.

If an overstretched US one day devalues those greenbacks then it can count on the same number of barrels at a lower real cost.

Goldman's gamble that many of America's overstretched borrowers would default on their mortgages is unlikely to win it new friends.

In this vision of the future, American saving would rise as overstretched borrowers repaid their debts.

Hebei's overstretched reservoirs had better be prepared.

And the finances of several retailers that overstretched themselves in the good times look shaky.

Its few diplomats are good, but terribly overstretched.

At the same time, he should not overestimate the patience of the American people or the weariness of the overstretched military.

The households and governments of the big deficit countries, such as the US and UK, are overstretched.

At the same time, America is overstretched militarily and environmentally as well as financially.

But it is sorely overstretched, with some 1, 500 people being brought into prisons every month as the Americans empty their own Iraqi jails.

This can often have a detrimental effect on their health and put further pressures on overstretched facilities.

I am a bit financially overstretched recently.

So there is a pressing need to bring order and sanity to Britain's overstretched defence budget.

At the same time, Britain's overstretched armed services were involved in two wars, neither of which was going well.

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Disappointing exports, stalled investment and fiscal austerity leave the overstretched consumer as Canada's only hope for growth

some Western countries such as America and Britain are overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan;