The strenuous effort depleted her coal stocks and overtaxed her engines. Farmers were heavily overtaxed, rents were rising, and peasants were deserting their lands in droves. He believes that Texas taxpayers are overtaxed and the current tax rates are unsustainable. The demands of the expanding utility soon overtaxed the cramped lower Manhattan shop. The engines of both were becoming dangerously overtaxed, and their crews were near exhaustion. Incessant work overtaxed his strength, and in 1896 cerebral exhaustion gradually developed. Perhaps Hubley's diversification in the 1960s overtaxed its profits, weakening it financially by the 1970s. He himself rejected suggestions that Canada's richest citizens are overtaxed. Later in the year, overtaxed by his enormous workload, Wood's health broke down. Game to the last, Kalk overtaxed his own strength; he died from exposure and exhaustion. In an effort to rebuild the national treasuries, Khosrau overtaxed the population. The drought overtaxed Vietnam's modest irrigation systems which were also damaged in the floods. There were frequent cost overruns and construction delays, and resources were overtaxed. The countryside was being overtaxed by growing cities. His debut "Herzog Theodor von Gothland" overtaxed contemporary critics by its all-pervasive nihilism.