Yet having a woman lead a big national party could be something of a stretch for many Kazakhs.
Even in today's Web-crazed world, Direct Hit would have been a stretch for most other Silicon Valley firms.
Given this vast cultural difference, it may be a stretch for the Chinese to shift from manufacturing to innovation.
The role of a cowboy was not a stretch for Robertson, who grew up on an Oklahoma horse ranch.
It was always going to be a stretch for Mr Fujimori to govern Peru for another five years amid international opprobrium.
But this was too much of a stretch for the court's supporters.
But this would be a stretch for unsubsidized, non-Norwegian troupes.
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It sounds like a stretch for a band that specializes in klezmer, the clarinet based dance music of Eastern European Jews to record a whole album of Woody Guthrie songs.
Besides, no one knows yet how the government money will be distributed, making it a bit of a stretch for fund firms to argue that investors have been made whole.
If the word artist seems like a stretch for a man who works with springs and screws, just listen to Journe describe his wonderment when a new creation comes to life.
It would be a stretch for ethanol to displace more than 10% of the 150 billion gallons of gasoline used annually in the U.S., says Jason Grumet, executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan, non-profit group.
It seems to be a stretch for Chief Justice John Roberts to re-label an unconstitutional health insurance mandate as a tax, after the legislative and executive branches of government insisted they were not passing a new tax on the American people.
"It's been a rough stretch for us on this road trip, a lot of guys in and out of the lineup, " Thomas said.
In fact, analysts now expect negative growth for the next quarter and for the current year period as well, suggesting a rough stretch for the company going forward as well.
Even so, a Detroit comeback story seems a bit of a stretch, for now.
It's part of a busy stretch for me, and I want to continue playing well.
It's been a bad stretch for financial companies but for some, really bad.
On a recent morning at the academy, a bulldozer and a dump truck leveled a stretch of soil for a running field.
West had already dipped his toe into the world of fashion design, so this was not such a big stretch for him.
The Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red and Arabian seas, has become a treacherous stretch for ships, particularly along the Somali coast.
Value stocks and small stocks have their good years and their bad years, Bogle says, so it s foolish to think that a winning stretch for fundamentalism is going to continue.
Though Nike committed to fair labor practices more than a decade ago, it still faces problems, including a report by the Associated Press last year that workers for its Converse brand in Indonesia were being slapped by supervisors, forced to stand in the scorching sun for hours at a stretch as punishment for not meeting quotas, and insulted as dogs and pigs by bosses.
Bernstein left government for a stretch, becoming general counsel first for Chemical Waste Management and then for WMX Technologies.
Officials say 1.13m have been moved from towns and villages upriver to make way for a reservoir that will stretch for 660km.
Which is not bad, if you don't mind being cooped up in a boat for weeks at a stretch.
Mr. McDonough is a partial owner and a spokesman for owners of a stretch of beach that fronts hundreds of homes.
February may be a short month, but it was a pretty good stretch for the U.S. labor market and that helped Wall Street continue its winning ways Friday.
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Vujevic thought she would have a stretch of time for lunch -- modeling makes her hungry, she says -- but as she's leaving the studio, her agency sends an e-mail letting her know that she has a fitting for Gerlan Jeans, so she heads downtown.
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