How To Use Overstress In A Sentence

  • Detailed calculations made during the inquiry indicate that some struts would have been overstressed.
  • Former Yankee Jim Leyritz said he was distraught and "overstressed" - but not suicidal - before checking into a psych ward. NY Daily News
  • We need to reduce our dependence on a centralized, outdated and overstressed electrical grid.
  • When you overtrain and overstress your body, the side effects can include progressive loss of strength, tiredness, loss of appetite, disrupted sleep, loss of motivation, and irritability. Body by Design
  • Even at these temperatures, failures might be initiated by overstressing the tires.
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  • The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss. 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
  • One cannot overstress the importance of the company you keep.
  • The analogy between internal friction increment and overstress due to strain-rate sensitivity is clarified.
  • Which, I suggest, is a point that cannot be overstressed, especially today.
  • This spring the 80-year-old levy system along the Mississippi was so overstressed by rains that the river had to be temporarily shut to commercial traffic, costing the economy millions of dollars. Robert Creamer: What Do the Earthquake, Infrastructure and Antiquated Accounting Have to Do With Jobs?
  • The editorial basically argues that staying in Iraq (to avoid defeat) will somehow preserve the military, because being totally overstressed is somehow worse than losing a little face by redeploying home. Your Right Hand Thief
  • Shorted magnetoresistive head leads for electrical overstress and electrostatic discharge protection during manufacture of a magnetic storage system
  • This latter statement of mine is, perhaps, overstressing the point, but I think many teachers of creative writing have found a certain resistance among students to attempt poetry outside the old ‘mainstream’ formal structures.
  • ‘This prevents overstressing the targeted muscle group while better depleting muscle glycogen levels,’ notes Stoppani.
  • When you overtrain and overstress your body, the side effects can include progressive loss of strength, tiredness, loss of appetite, disrupted sleep, loss of motivation, and irritability. Body by Design
  • In virtually every chapter, readers are cautioned that they must avoid contamination; because this is a constant concern in a molecular laboratory, it cannot be overstressed.
  • The lengths of lead in the parapet gutters were too long by modern standards, and in consequence thermal movement was liable to cause overstress in the lead.
  • In his barrage of strategies in which folk music could be used to inspire a united fighting force, Lomax paused to take a jealous swipe at a hit record that had won over a nation primed for patriotic fervor: "I need not overstress my opinion that 'God Bless America' and Kate Smith are both extremely dull and mediocre," he wrote. The Catcher of Songs
  • The importance of power, strength, endurance, and other factors cannot be overstressed.
  • But Russell's father tells CNN that Army officers -- quote -- "overstressed" his son, telling him -- quote -- "We're going to break you. CNN Transcript May 12, 2009
  • For Fauré, art and music existed ‘to elevate mankind as far as possible above everyday existence’, but in his oeuvre the Hellenic aspect of calm, philosophical serenity has been overstressed.
  • So U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner's agenda should not overstress the revaluation of China's currency. Daniel Michaeli and Joel Backaler: Don't Let Iran Hijack the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue
  • I have heard a temptation to overstress symbolism, or an over-eagerness for closure touted as potential sticking points, and there are moments in this posthumous collection where one feels these may not be wholly invalid criticisms.
  • Water is the essence of life, and its importance to bodybuilders can't be overstressed.
  • This particular evening was fairly celebratory, but when Mr. Kelly feels overstressed, he has a solution. Honoring Those Who Appreciate
  • But if you're overstressed, drink too much coffee or alcohol or eat too many sweets, your adrenals may not be doing an adequate job.
  • As is the case with other engines or vehicles, new hydraulic systems require a break-in period; overstressing the system during this time could cause damage.
  • Environmental factors seem to be overnutrition and physically overstressing the joints with early training and playing.
  • This is purely random and is designed only to prevent me from overstressing a tendon.
  • We don't talk much about overstressing the aircraft, but there's a great deal of that going on.
  • Operating from primitive strips, bombs on outboard pylons were apparently overstressing the wing because of flexing while operating on the uneven terrain.
  • The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss. 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
  • On the one hand, it is hostile: by overstressing the physical, by throwing man back upon his body, it has a dehumanizing effect.
  • As the eponymous heroine, she sings well but tries too hard to be cute and clever, and loses a lot of the humour in her part by overstressing her lines rather than throwing them away.
  • That strand then becomes environmental in orientation, as it interprets modernity as overstressing the tendency to commodify nature and to degrade the earth as a source of life.
  • Boeing's philosophy is that the pilot should have total control of the aircraft, even if that means overstressing it.
  • During this period of international tension and corporate reorganisation, the importance and value of recording current activity cannot be overstressed.
  • There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries.
  • The show looks good, and he makes a powerful and sympathetic Lear - though the decision to play him as a twitching stroke sufferer is distracting and overstresses his infirmity.
  • There are vast differences between Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa so it's not an analogy that one should overstress," Mr. Froman said. In Eastern Europe, Obama Sees Berlin Wall's Fall Echoed in the Middle East
  • The weight of the water accumulated at the drain, where it overstressed the deck and the structure, and the building came down at a cost of about $2 million.
  • The importance of bones cannot be overstressed.
  • It said the tyre failed because of overstress probably caused by under-inflation, itself probably caused by a leaking overpressure valve.
  • But before he could unsnap his restraints, Major Catsman's overstressed voice came over the Dreamland channel. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • But before he could unsnap his restraints, Major Catsman's overstressed voice came over the Dreamland channel. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • My instructor relayed to the senior instructor that we would be returning to the airfield, because we had overstressed the plane.
  • Fighting to maintain a precise IFR height is more likely to result in overstressing the airplane.
  • In other words, if a straight section of pipe has been plastically bent one has to overstress the pipe in the opposite direction in order to straighten it.
  • O'BRIEN: Miles: One of things we have to consider here, which is worth going through, is the possibility, for whatever reason, that the aircraft might have been overstressed -- in other words, turned in an abrupt manner, a manner so abrupt that it exceeds the design tolerances of the aircraft. CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2001
  • It is impossible to overstress the importance of the weather in waging war, from launching a tactical attack to deciding when to start hostilities.
  • The mounting pins were secure and didn't seem to have been overstressed; the seal for the driveshaft had leaked a bit of water, but nothing to be concerned about.
  • Jim Leyritz said he was distraught and "overstressed" - but not suicidal - before he checked into a psych ward. NY Daily News
  • I wouldn't want to overstress this, but, in a way, it's bound up with the increased unionisation of the BBC.
  • But if you are fatigued, be prepared to face the reality that we are all overworked, overstressed and overbooked.
  • These are metabolic disruptors which overstress the organs involved in hormone regulation and can seriously affect your sleep cycles. Gwyneth Paltrow Is 'Knackered,' Concerned About Your Sleep
  • Do they think that the average reader would be unable to understand that the Earth's ecosystems are overstressed and some of them are on the virge of collapse? Seeing the Forest
  • With all these new issues on the horizon, the importance of this cannot be overstressed.
  • The danger that lurks within these museum pieces cannot be overstressed, with the possibility of fire, electrocution or both.
  • Another hypothesis was that wind forces at ‘hot spots,’ which resulted from the rhomboid shape of the tower, caused overstressing of the glass.
  • One of them also failed in the accident, but the report did not specify the cause of the "overstress" on those welds. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Over the past 10 days, Indian valuations were "overstressed," said T.S. Harihar of Karvy S.ock Broking in Hyderabad. U.S. Fears Hammer Asia
  • There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries.
  • Sorry to be such a weeper, but my nerves are clearly overstressed.
  • The film's visuals, shot with an excessive use of the soft filter, tend to overstress the contrast between Indian exoticism and British stuffiness.
  • And if there are not enough of them, or if they're overstressed, or their shifts are too long, then I think that's in some ways a greater risk to patient safety than anything the doctors can do.
  • Many are beginners and the basics of safety can never be overstressed.
  • The analogy between internal friction increment and overstress due to strain-rate sensitivity is clarified.
  • However, because the triceps are a relatively small bodypart and because you wind up working them pretty hard when training chest, you don't have to do too much for them and you don't have to worry about overstressing your elbows.
  • Operating from primitive strips, bombs on outboard pylons were apparently overstressing the wing because of flexing while operating on the uneven terrain.
  • For example, a client may ask their GP, their social worker, their mental health worker, each to write letters of support for government housing, thereby overstressing the already strained government housing service.
  • I don't think you can overstress the Vietnam factor in discussing Penn's movie. A post that requires you to accept that I can do a passable impersonation of Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man
  • The importance of unit testing human-created as well as machine-generated source code can't be overstressed.
  • Consequently, before repairing an active crack, it is important to determine and alleviate the cause of the overstress.
  • It is not uncommon for these arms to be overstressed and damaged, to the point where they need major structural repair.
  • Going too heavy can lead to overstressing your elbows.
  • Shimming of the shelf angle may not be adequate and may put the anchorage into overstress if shimmed too far.
  • If the Scripps Spelling Bee had been a Mark Burnett-style production, we'd have been treated to behind-the-scenes footage of players forming alliances, strategizing to trip up the frontrunners; Isabel Jacobson, the last female speller standing (you go, girl!), pitting the boys against each other by stage-whispering invitations to clandestine trysts; We'd "overhear" overstressed kids being browbeaten by parents who'd caught them peaking at comic books rather than practicing Croatian conjugation. Brenda Scott Royce: Last Speller Standing
  • Free time not just through the ancient practice of the Sabbath but also through new ways, appropriate to an industrial/informational economy, of pausing from overwork and overstress.
  • They are prone to nervous breakdowns if overstressed mentally. 4.

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