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How to use the word burden in a Sentence?

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The tech industry is going to come at this bill, and every other kids’ online safety bill, with everything it’s got, but the burden of proof is on those who want to protect the status quo, because the status quo is making a whole generation of users mentally ill.

Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
12 months ago

For a lot of people, this can be a very disruptive period of time, there is a significant time and paperwork burden being placed on families – a lot of them very low income, a lot of them medically vulnerable.

Sabrina Corlette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This puts the burden on China not to overreact, because any overreaction is only going to push China further away from the world.

Yun Sun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Further, females had higher tau burden than males when they also have amyloid pathology in the brain.

Tara Spires-Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Local governments are running short of money, or in some cases, out of money, funding zero-Covid was the most proximate cause for the crunch, but local finances are deteriorating for other reasons too, notably the rising burden of expenses associated with age-related spending.

George Magnus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would give me a sense of relief that people in my community cannot have that burden on their shoulders, being threatened by possibly losing a piece of us.

Ashley Hemmers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, the Dodd-Frank piece I think would be very good for the economy, moving away from too big to fail and really lifting the burden off a lot of our small and medium-sized financial institutions who have just gotten clubbed by Dodd-Frank.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Mary – and Henry – can prove that an ASO works in an AHC patient, they will be providing a tremendous service to the entire community, mary is taking on an incredible burden of risk, and much of the burden of cost, for Henry but also on behalf of the other patients in our community.

Nina Frost

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The structural racism may at least partially explain our findings. For example, Black patients living in neighborhoods with predominantly Black residents tend to live close to hospitals that lack resources to provide high quality healthcare, it is possible that Black men in particular face especially high cumulative amounts of stress and allostatic load, which refers to the cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events, potentially leading to a higher death rate after surgery among this population.

Yusuke Tsugawa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our findings point to possibilities such as poorer pre-optimization of co-morbidities prior to surgery, delays of care due to structural racism and physician bias, and worse stress and its associated physical burden on Black men in the United States.

Dan Ly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I imagine that’s what they are negotiating now, who is going to have to give up what, and where does the burden fall.

Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Though there are better, more eco-friendly ways to shop, the two approaches to shopping these sites that cause more eco burden are 1) not shopping with modest consumption in mind( buying more than you need, duplicates ‘ just in case, ’ or overindulging in extras or add-ons because of sale pricing) ; and, 2) purchasing excess with an ‘ I ’ll return this if it does n’t work ’ mindset, returns are extremely environmentally taxing, from the transit to the waste and sometimes tossed merchandise, so shop with a mindset of moderation whenever possible.

Ashlee Piper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It will be the government’s burden to defend it in court, and Tennessee, like Alabama, like Texas, like Arkansas, will not be able to do so.

Chase Strangio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s hard to not feel emotionally attached to the case, but also to Rich himself, it’s an extraordinary burden to try to save another human being’s life.

Meri Wright

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The world is becoming warmer and wetter. That’s just going to mean that there’s a higher burden of mold spores.

Matthew Fisher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this case, since the identity of the perpetrator is a critical element that must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, evidence of motive may be used in an attempt to meet that burden.

Clifton Newman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Joe Biden’s failure to enforce the law at the border has made every state a border state, instead of securing the border, President Biden is shifting the burden of the influx of illegal migrants onto New York communities. Upstate New York should not be punished for Biden’s border crisis.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We must cherish our yesterdays, but never carry them as a burden into the future. Each generation must take nourishment from the other and give knowledge to the one that comes after.

Ardis Whitman

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1 year ago

We have the highest taxes in the country. They keep putting the socialist burden on well-to-do retirees, business owners and their just leading California left and right right now.

John Duarte for Congress

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Unprecedented to raid a former president's home — not just the compound, but his home, i doubt that's ever been thought of before in American history. And no sense of burden of why it happened, why they did it. No sense of explanation.

Bill Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ended a shameful injustice against LGBTQ Americans serving in our armed forces, its legacy continues to burden the women and men unfairly ousted under the discriminatory policy.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've seen the consequences when international infrastructure deals are corrupt and coercive, when they're poorly built or environmentally destructive, when they import or abuse workers, or burden countries with crushing debts.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now that I'm divorced, I don't have the burden anymore. I decided to go by Wang Qun and leave my two kids to my parents.

Wang Qun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The IRS enforcement funding in the Inflation Reduction Act is something Congressman Beyer feels strongly is needed to restore declining customer service, get working Americans their tax refunds in a timely manner, and prevent wealthy people and large corporations from avoiding their fair share of the tax burden, tax avoidance costs the country many billions of dollars every year, and that revenue gap hurts everyone else.

Aaron Fritschner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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