1.   But the limits are being stretched by both sides.

2.   For a team that prides itself on the bottom line, even this stretched the limits.

3.   He is training hard, pushing tolerances and stretching limits.

4.   His legs were one thing, the way the thighs stretched the limits of the Red Sox uniform doubleknit.

5.   In return, Japan agreed on Wednesday to stretch the limits of its pacifist Constitution with a joint declaration offering broadened support to U.S. military operations.

6.   It means stretching the limits of the genre to attract new audiences without alienating its core.

7.   Last autumn, he and his wife stretched the limits with a drive to southern Maine.

8.   Money is the reason top NCAA officials enjoy benefits that stretch the limits of tax law and their own ethics rules.

9.   Ms. Amos has obviously been influenced by her friend Polly Harvey, whose albums stretch the limits of propriety for the female voice.

10.   Only an occasional bit of imagined conversation between the Creesys stretches the limits, but not dangerously so.