The war had put an insupportable financial burden on the country.
The irony of it is that the new tax system will burden those it was intended to help.
A huge burden was lifted from my shoulders when I told my parents about my problem.
Such a high increase will impose an undue burden on the local tax payer.
Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.
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.
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