But there are continuing concerns about the impact the war is having on the overstretched Army.
They say they are simply overstretched and the pressure on them is growing all the time.
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Defence Secretary Des Browne insisted that British forces in the country were "stretched, but not overstretched".
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As a result, they are dangerously overstretched and vulnerable to any change in interest rates.
He denies that French forces are overstretched, and insists there is now real progress in Libya.
The U.S. and Britain have already declined, saying they're overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Air traffic controllers complain that they're already overstretched, and in danger of becoming more so.
Countries with troops in those areas, including Britain, the Netherlands, Poland and Denmark, feel overstretched already.
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The overstretched court system, alas, is in no shape to oversee such a process.
Mayors all over the country are struggling with a lack of risk capital and overstretched personnel.
In the past, the French have argued that they are overstretched by commitments elsewhere, notably in Africa.
Wharf obtained a controlling stake in the Hangzhou-based residential developer in mid-2012 after it became overstretched financially.
And at least one ex-general says the money would be better spent on the overstretched conventional army.
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The local police are underpaid, overstretched and no match for the organised crime gangs running the business.
Donors, their generosity worn out by a year of spectacular calamities, were tight-fisted, and aid agencies overstretched.
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But those growth assumptions may be overstretched if public sentiment turns against nuclear power following Japan's problems.
They said 111 would involve unqualified staff who would just refer patients to other overstretched health services.
Today's confusion reflects in part the overstretched management of any young company that has grown so fast.
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An employee from the underfunded and overstretched New York Metropolitan Transit Authority directed fans towards a waiting train.
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Rarely remarked upon, even to this day, is that valuation was overstretched in 2007, near 20 times earnings.
It said providers could not offer the standards of care everyone wanted to see if they were overstretched.
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It says providers could not provide the standards of care everyone wanted to see if they were overstretched.
But the good intentions of his overstretched interim government matter less than a power struggle in the army.
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"As a result they are now so overstretched that there is no slack left in the system, " he said.
"We will never get the right culture on our wards if they are understaffed and overstretched, " Mr Burnham said.
These chores are among the main reasons why people say they are so overstretched (especially working women with children).
It is overstretched with other commitments just now, and also miffed by Mr Mubarak's unwillingness to offer open support.
Mr Blair has grand ambitions for more intervention abroad, especially in Africa, but Britain's regular armed forces are overstretched.
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Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
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