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How to use the word burden in a Sentence? Page #9

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Reckless spending is not a vision ... it's a burden on current and future generations.

Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

- it is a great joy to be able to touch people, to touch their lives, their minds, their conditions, to help them see that they are not alone, that indeed someone(you) cared about them. That is the true essence of life. That is love in its purest sense. It is the highest standard to live up to, and not many want that burden, for indeed the road is never easy. That is how I live my life helping and loving others. I am ras cardo from trench town.

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added by anonymous
4 years ago

I believe the government has met its burden of showing he is a flight risk and a danger to the community.

Karen Molzen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I expected to be in New York a maximum of three days in connection with The Daniels case. I left New York three weeks later, so this took off far greater than I ever anticipated. It became a significant financial burden. And there's no question about that.

Michael Avenatti

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am very troubled by your non-answers today. Madam secretary, there is no freedom in a student being obligated to pay off a loan from a school that has defrauded them. It's an unjust burden.

Mark Takano

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

Milton Friedman

added by Normando
5 years ago

It's very difficult to penalize an exporting country, you have to have a very large burden of proof to prove what they're doing.

Basil Liakakos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

With this drug, we are not only preventing that first heart attack but potentially the second stroke and maybe that third fatal event, prevention of such subsequent cardiovascular events could improve patient outcomes and quality of life and may lower the total cost burden of medical care.

Deepak Bhatt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Individuals like myself would not be here today had it not been for them, not only that but everything that they had to endure in a time like that where there was so much weight on their shoulders. They were able to shoulder the burden so that people like myself could later on in life.

Greg Allen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There's a temptation, I suspect, to take the money and run, i can certainly empathize with the temptation to not play ball. ... I just think that's a ludicrous burden to put on the individual.

Arthur Caplan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It takes the burden off other people having to contribute and it can be fun.

Diane Craig

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Over the past half century, humanity has witnessed the destruction of 60 % of mammal, bird, fish and reptile populations around the world, we are the first generation to truly comprehend the reality of what we're doing to the natural world, and we may be the last with the chance to avert much of the damage. With this knowledge comes an extraordinary burden of responsibility that we all share.

Irish President Michael Higgins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I believe it was very helpful, very useful and very important for you to have been here, Mr. Manafort, i know that weve had hearings where counsel sought to minimize the burden on you and not have you be here, but this is about you, its not about them. And I think its very important that they have you available to ask questions to.

Amy Berman Jackson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The findings from United States are a warning for increased burden of obesity-related cancer in older adults in the future.

Ahmedin Jemal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Coast Guard members're five plus weeks into the anxiety and stress of this government lapse and your non-pay, you as members of the armed forces should not be expected to shoulder this burden.

Karl L. Schultz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We're five plus weeks into the anxiety and stress of this government lapse and your non-pay, you as members of the armed forces should not be expected to shoulder this burden.

Karl L. Schultz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You as members of the armed forces should not be expected to shoulder this burden.

Karl L. Schultz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Yes, and you know what else taxpayers are paying for ? The financial burden of this illegal immigration.

Mercedes Schlapp

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I had gone through 26 years of always being a burden, of always having to be looked after, having to be cared for because I've always had health issues. And it's a really helpless feeling, things like this can be really hard on a person.

Sarah Hyland

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This serves as an outright disenfranchisement and burden on the right to vote.

Marc Elias

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our source is the same source that you have. It is a mystery. This is putting a lot of burden on us -- all of us. That everybody is seeking for information just as we do. They think that we have answers, and unfortunately we don't.

Jamal Khashoggis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don't think a female can ever understand the societal pressure that's put on an adolescent male to unburden himself of this stigma that society's put on him, this virginity burden.

Scott Paul Beierle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It will be carefully designed to ensure it is established tech giants, rather than our tech start-ups, that shoulder the burden.

Philip Hammond

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a substantial financial investment by the state, many millions of dollars, but we recognize that student loans are a big financial burden and emotional burden.

Nate Wildes

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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