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Then, if the paper money remains an acceptable substitute for the metallic money, no significant burden falls on the public.
We were unable to find evidence of any benefit or detriment for the burden of carers as assessed by two quantitative measures.
The trials have also shown that the new process does not add to the burden on the ship's technical complement.
When he reaches the top of that he shadow boxes, all the while wearing a burden equivalent to a quarter of his own body weight.
It is a heavy burden you lay upon me, but if the worst comes to the worst, I accept.
So there would be no additional burden at all on taxpayers as a result of that change.
Needless to say, this has led to additional burden on the locality's narrow roads.
Weight deals specifically with speed and how much of a burden the character is on their craft, which can affect its speed.
The result has been to shift the burden of proof to members and associates of those gangs, and, in effect, to hit them in their wallets.
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 plunge in profits and sudden sharp increase in the burden of debt are, of course, leading symptoms of a depression.
Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
Yet the burden of geography has not changed, while the Russian state has changed profoundly since the ascension of Putin.
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.
It concludes that since military service is a burden, moral considerations require that the load be shared as equally as possible.
The burden would then be on them to root through all their files in search of infringing items.
As well the added burden of Ms Cook's ill health caused her to be disinclined to litigate.
Unfortunately, the United States must share the lion's share of the burden for now.
The impromptu funeral rites she performs are her amateurish attempts to clear her conscience of this terrible burden.
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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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