1 having more work or other activities than you can manage: --
Either local authorities, whose expenditure is already overstretched, will have to subsidise them, or some kiosks will have to go.
The truth is, however, that those officers are overstretched and overworked.
We do not have to have a service which depends on staff being overstretched and overworked.
Cramming yet another on to an overstretched head without proper preparation courts disaster.
The resources of the quarantine authorities and station were significantly overstretched by the greatly increased numbers of those, both healthy and infected, who had to be accommodated.
During the second half of the war the overstretched war economy and poor supply situation had led to a sharp increase in strikes and walk-outs which continued after the war.
For them, of much more pressing concern was the imminent subsistence crisis compounded by increasing and seemingly arbitrary fiscal demands on their already overstretched resources.
These refugees entered an area that was already overstretched.
