• Eleven thousand soldiers in a unit, that sounds like a lot, but stretched over several provinces in the mountains?

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  • In Kentucky, where the string of Democratic governors stretched back over three decades, the party was in trouble long before the president set foot in the Bluegrass State.

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  • Stepan Botsvynyuk received 20 years in prison for his role in the crime, which stretched over seven years.

    BBC: Fighting human trafficking on US soil

  • As dawn broke, however, there was agitation throughout the county as word quickly spread of the discovery of a trail of hoof prints (some say cloven), two inches wide and about eight inches apart in the snow stretched in a more-or-less straight line for over a hundred miles.

    FORBES: Fed And Treasury Leave Devilish Prints On Bull Market

  • All of which is a long-winded way of explaining why the borrowing costs of the government perceived to be most financially over-stretched, Spain, have soared today to record levels - in that the dispute over whether to go for a banking union shows that the eurozone is as far as ever it was from a fundamental solution to its woes.

    BBC: Eurozone��s banking union blown up

  • Richards and Catt combined to deliver quick ball for the visitors' three-quarters, and with the Dragons defence stretched De Vedia went over in the corner for the opening try.

    BBC: Dragons 17-45 London Irish

  • But the left-arm paceman opened up with a nervous, low full toss, and the in-form Bopara stretched across to bounce it over point's head for four.

    BBC: Superb Netherlands shock England

  • Second-row Charteris then levelled the scores when he stretched his 6ft 10in frame over in virtually the same spot after a period of heavy Dragons pressure.

    BBC: Dragons 22-15 Calvisano

  • There are more hard choices for the government this weekend, as it meets in conclave to discuss reform of Germany's over-stretched pension system.

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  • North Allegheny High pounded the ball across the goal line for two late scores and stretched its dominance over Shaler to 25 wins in the past 26 meetings.

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  • Higher levels of debt mean that borrowers' finances can become over-stretched at much lower rates of interest than in the past.

    ECONOMIST: Labour could be hurt if interest rates rise this spring

  • It also ponders the difficulties of an organisation in which the incompetent are rarely sacked and the competent are over-stretched and ill-rewarded.

    ECONOMIST: United Nations

  • In the crowded child nutrition centre, I saw four babies in a state of the most extreme starvation, skin stretched tight over bones.

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  • Ipswich's disappointing afternoon was completed in injury time when Leadbitter lost control of the ball, over-stretched and clattered into Paul Anderson and was shown red as a result.

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  • The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) expressed "major concerns" about over stretched staff and "unfit" facilities at HMP Risley in Warrington.

    BBC: HMP Risley

  • The heat is also felt worst in the major cities such as Delhi with its teeming populations and over-stretched public facilities.

    BBC: By Jyotsna Singh in Delhi

  • The next step, Pearce believes, is to add an ethical dimension to the struggle by highlighting the fact that those intitially affected will be almost entirely located in the developing world where infrastructure and resources are already at their most over-stretched.

    CNN: Climate change action: Too little, too late?

  • Another Priestland penalty stretched the margin to six points - but that was wiped out as centre Pizarro went over in the 56th minute and Tebaldi converted to put Aironi 17-16 up.

    BBC: Aironi 17-34 Scarlets

  • But for over 30 years, I've been putting in regular time at the ballet barre, dressed in a stretched-out unitard, baggy shorts or a gauze skirt, and a sleeveless men's T-shirt, accessorized with an elastic knee bandage.

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  • But Halard-Decugis, ranked 17th in the world, stretched into a 4-1 lead at the start of the decider and it looked all over.

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  • The increase is likely to be due, in part, to increased reporting but it is also more than likely that many errors occur because staff are over-stretched.

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  • But Wales now must play New Zealand who stretched their record wnning streak in the IRB Sevens World Series to 39 with their 47-7 victory over the United States.

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