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As well the added burden of Ms Cook's ill health caused her to be disinclined to litigate.
The general principle in civil litigation is that the burden of proof lies on the asserter of a claim.
He developed an international reputation by exploiting a loophole letting US companies cut their tax burden.
The rest of the morning he flapped from nest to pole to river and back again, trying to rid himself of what was now a loathsome burden.
Insurance companies say the principal reason for the dramatic increases is the spiralling burden of reinsurance on all the major insurers.
The spontaneous regression of some tumors is usually explained as a phenomenon of the individual's own immune system attacking the tumor burden.
After a moment, Henry tapped the man on his epaulet-clad shoulder and relieved him of his beautiful burden.
Her tone had changed considerably which made him feel like he had been relieved of a great burden from his shoulders.
To have won a major title at the age of 17 was a remarkable feat but it landed her with a frightening burden of expectation.
However, the company has shown reluctance on the grounds that they cannot bear the financial burden.
Moreover, in social terms he has had to bear a burden the others could not even remotely contemplate having to carry.
It is a heavy burden you lay upon me, but if the worst comes to the worst, I accept.
The burden of proof lies with the customs service to prove the goods were to be sold commercially, the court said.
Furthermore, the contrast with the burden put on the public-company sector has become laughable.
This burden threatened to sink the new republican government, indeed the whole democratic experiment.
We saw earlier that, although human punishment does not bear the full burden of requiting good and evil, it must hold up requital as an ideal.
If you plan on selling the vehicle sometime down the road, you'll shoulder the burden of resale depreciation.
Some might conclude that such programmes may add bureaucratic layers and burden to an already overtaxed system.
Civil libertarians argue this is hardly an onerous burden for law enforcement.
The burden is a clutch of vivid memories which inspire a mixture of anger and pity in equal measure.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She had taken anna into business with her, but the burden of the partnership had always been on Harriet.
The inward grace required must not be measured by the apparent magnitude of the burden, but the strength of the sustainer.
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
That would be to absolve him from living, since it is life itself that is the burden.
He wanted them to goto be aloneto stretch his arms, to rid himself of the burden of sense, and be free.
The true lover of the mountains flees the spot, for the day-tripper is a burden and desire fails.
The women of to-day carry the dead load upon their backs, and literally stagger beneath the accumulating burden of the ages.
Suiting the action to the word, he flung his burden into the Slough of despond.
The muscles of the arm, the strength of the body, a blow from a cestus, never yet raised that kind of burden off the ground.
The ligatures, skilfully placed to confine the experiment to a safe area, gave way, beneath the whole burden of a well-fed frame.
The claim-jumper dropped what was left of his burden and went hopping on, acquiring stone bruises with every leap.
The sambar stag, though almost equal in size, will not bear the slightest burden, but the nilgao will carry a man.
But an opportunity arrived which enabled him to disembosom the burden that pressed upon his heart.
Any boy more 'gleg at the uptak' would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden.
And often those with the gambrel prolonged the strain, being provokingly slow, in hopes to make the holder drop his burden.
Timothy consented with alacrity, seeming to feel the burden of his semi-attached state.
All concerned in Ralegh's trial and conviction have a heavy burden of bloodguiltiness to bear.
A Dutch galliot may be fifty, eighty, or even a hundred and fifty tons burden.
The burden of all these articles is the same, viz., the unity of Swedenborgianism and Fourierism.
Prying up a forkful of hay, he staggered under the burden back to the cows, singing as he came toward the intruder.
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