21.   The agency also came up with some creative ways to stretch its resources.

22.   The City of Atlanta government is also impacted during this time because manpower resources are stretched.

23.   The company was losing money because its stores were outdated and its resources had been stretched by its acquisitions of unrelated businesses like Office Max and Borders books.

24.   The cost of attending college has spiraled upward faster than inflation for years, stretching the resources of many families and putting college beyond the reach of some.

25.   The flood of refugees from Wau and other insecure regions overburdened communities whose food resources were already stretched to the limit, aid workers say.

26.   The layoffs in Georgia are stretching the resources of agencies that help laid-off workers.

27.   They have been slashing advertising and marketing budgets, laying off employees, moving to cheaper offices and generally trying to stretch resources and do more with less.

28.   This year, however, even that tradition has crumbled, with the extra security measures imposing an unheard-of number of street closings and stretching resources thin.

29.   This year they will have to stretch their resources even further as it absorbs cases from other agencies.

30.   Ultimately resources were stretched too thin.