Eksempler på burden

• The letters were a moving plea for relief from the burdens of repeated child-bearing.

• Why change tax rates to make tax burdens sound more onerous when the status quo gained the same revenues?

• The transfer of reference to the sick and incapacitated is a minor semantic development: compare the histories of burden's lexical neighbours, bureau, burger and business.

• One consents not only to actions but also to the holding of certain positions and to the imposition of duties and burdens.

• Regulators may restrict access to records based on answers to certain questions and add burdens to hospital record-keepers.

• Tax burdens were arbitrary and unpredictable and the judicial verdicts of royal governors were blatantly dependent upon bribery.

• The greatest burdens of the war- destruction, disruption of life and economic deprivation- have fallen on the rural population.

• Although more talented scholars are being drawn to this field of study, it remains burdened with several premises that invite reform.

• The book is not burdened by excessive reference citations, is very readable and suited to a wideranging audience.

• In order to make just resource allocation decisions, an impartial appraisal of the burdens of benefits is certainly necessary.

• The agreement could, for example, be over the sharing of the benefits and burdens associated with the construction and maintenance of an irrigation system.

• The eldest son tried to bear the brunt of these burdens, but it was not long before he had to leave.

• Often the two coincided, with those living together dividing state and feudal burdens among themselves.

• What becomes immediately clear from the figures is that housework disproportionately burdened women.

• Options for placement continue to be limited, since foster parents are reluctant to take on the additional burdens caused by drug exposure and premature birth.