overstretch in a sentence

Examples

1. Any confrontation with Pyongyang would overstretch the United States, now preoccupied with the crisis in Iraq and the global war on terrorism.
2. However, Sweden last week cautioned the larger EU nations against adopting too ambitious a plan that would overstretch the defense budgets of smaller countries.
3. "The Republicans may overstretch and nominate someone so out of mainstream America that Bill Clinton can grab the middle, " said Peterson.
4. The Jacksonians opposed other elements of Clay s ideology, including support for internal infrastructural improvements, on the grounds that they represented governmental overstretch as well.
5. The Army complains of " overstretch, " and for the first time reservists are being used for real soldiering in " peacetime ."
6. US Representative William D . Delahunt, Democrat of Quincy and chairman of the Coast Guard Caucus in the House, agreed that the service is dangerously overstretch.
7. "At present, we would overstretch the army " with such a role, Scharping was quoted as saying in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
8. Karzai has urged Germany to step in if Britain does so, but the Berlin government says that taking the lead would overstretch its army . ( gm)
9. The effect was that close-ups would slightly overstretch an actor's face, a problem that was soon referred to as " the mumps ".
10. I know there are many theories for the rise and fall of empires-imperial overstretch, cultural, social, environmental and economic factors and so on.