overburden

Example Sentences

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It’s pledging to build 1.5 million homes to ease Britain’s chronic housing crisis, reform an “antiquated” planning system it says is holding back infrastructure improvements, and repair the creaking, overburdened state-funded National Health Service.

From Seattle Times

Inslee and other state officials also underscored their commitment to protecting overburdened communities with the state’s climate funds.

From Seattle Times

That means tools such as vaccines will be prioritized; but in countries where dengue is endemic, the rainy season completely overburdens their health systems and what they desperately need are treatments, said Crockett.

From Scientific American

Following a Reuters request for comment, an ICE official said Torrance was a key detention center and that ICE keeps the population lower than capacity to avoid overburdening the staff.

From Reuters

Community corrections and pre-trial home confinement programs are part of an effort to provide relief to the overcrowded and overburdened American prison system.

From Encyclopedia.com