"stretch" in English

We are in the last stretch to the finish, but the road will still be rather bumpy.

Margarethen, which involves a stretch of road of less than 15 kilometres, a very short distance.

funds to convert this stretch of road into a four-lane highway

Mrs Reding has reached an interesting compromise between our desire to stretch the Treaty to its limits and ensuring that we do not go too far and allow it to snap.

Mrs Reding has reached an interesting compromise between our desire to stretch the Treaty to its limits and ensuring that we do not go too far and allow it to snap.

The effects of stretch performed for periods longer than seven months have not been investigated.

Mrs Reding has reached an interesting compromise between our desire to stretch the Treaty to its limits and ensuring that we do not go too far and allow it to snap.

Mrs Reding has reached an interesting compromise between our desire to stretch the Treaty to its limits and ensuring that we do not go too far and allow it to snap.

Parliament has traditionally taken the treaties and tried to stretch them like a piece of elastic.

Of course, if you stretch elastic too far it can snap and you can hurt your fingers.

But I am convinced that the package that we put before you today has stretched the elastic to just the right degree and that what we have come up with is a package which we can commend to the House.

We decided to stretch all corners of the cubic volume, and to integrate the building organically with landscape.

we weren't expecting them for dinner, but we can make the food stretch

Of course, if you stretch elastic too far it can snap and you can hurt your fingers.

Mr President, 240 million people live in an archipelago that would stretch from London to Baghdad.

It is a large country stretching between China, Siberia and Europe.

The members of the OSCE are also very varied, including countries that stretch from Vancouver to Vladivostok.

to stretch to reach sth

to stretch to infinity

Many hands have been stretched out to Iran, and the European Parliament is stretching out another to it today.

I say to the Greek Cypriots: stop seizing on opportunities for confrontation and stretch out a hand of friendship.

We decided to stretch all corners of the cubic volume, and to integrate the building organically with landscape.

we weren't expecting them for dinner, but we can make the food stretch

Of course, if you stretch elastic too far it can snap and you can hurt your fingers.

Iraq is a country that is riven by tragedy: it is fraught with trauma, and the pain of its people stretches across the world.

I would like to emphasise that the equality of opportunities – as the first human right formulated by the European Union – is a horizontal area stretching across all sectors.

Very lengthy application procedures stretched over many years result in small entrepreneurs quite simply running out of breath and not making it through to the final stages of the process.

It is very clear, however, that parts of the Commission services are already very stretched.

We find it hard, however, to imagine enlarging Europe even further without launching a debate which is now urgent: ultimately, how wide can Europe's borders stretch?

We find it hard, however, to imagine enlarging Europe even further without launching a debate which is now urgent: ultimately, how wide can Europe's borders stretch?

Its scope would be over-stretched if immediate policy objectives were also assigned to it.

We have stretched to the ultimate limit of what we can do and this actually has been recognised.

Both the extremely stretched British loyalty to Washington and continuing French anti-Americanism are a poor guide for European policy.

In fact, the version proposed by the rapporteur created the possibility of abolishing the milk quotas, albeit if its interpretation is stretched.

We are also faced with problems of resources, because the capabilities of the ASEAN states are stretched by the wide number of FTAs they are currently negotiating.