0 causing difficulties or work:
a burdensome task
It tends to be more burdensome for society.
Basically, farmers and businessmen are opposed to green taxes because they increase production costs and are burdensome since they create uncertainty about future tax levels.
Mayors also felt it would be too burdensome to collect insurance premiums from elderly residents 65 years and older.
The obligatory nature of ghamkhadi is widely perceived as binding and burdensome as it constrains as well as shapes social visiting among women.
Although highly effective, the nightly infusions are painful and burdensome to patients, resulting in non-compliance.
Nevertheless, the procedure is computationaly burdensome and requires the knowledge of the second moment of true errors, which is generally unknown.
Not in all cases though: it is perfectly conceivable to think that donating a liver lobe is less burdensome whilst alive than once dead.
Other large landowners may simply have found the duties too burdensome or inconvenient, and therefore chose not to serve.