Muresan played effectively for Washington from 1993 to 1997 before missing all of last season with a severely stretched tendon in his right ankle.

Despite helping to enroll 8,000 miners into the A.A.M. for his district, funds for the union were severely stretched after a series on strikes during the early to mid-1870s.

The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Soviet compliance could be verified, although monitoring ability would be severely stretched if extended to the strategic arms treaty still being negotiated.

Now that the cold war is over, this overspending should be taken into account in evaluating the Pentagon's claims to severely stretched resources.

It is offering $5 (Canadian) and two Royal Oak shares for each outstanding Lac share, and analysts said its finances were severely stretched.

The Boer War had severely stretched the resources of the British Army and had exposed the weakness of the militia and volunteers as an effective reserve force.

By late 1915, British forces in the border areas of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, on German East Africa's south-western flank, were severely stretched.

This is particularly relevant, as heading 5 of the budget, for administration, is severely stretched.

Both sides were severely stretched following the battle.

The orchestra is severely stretched to maintain any sort of cogent line, and the fantasy of the work is all but lost.