The phrase "a certain burden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but not explicitly defined burden or responsibility that someone may have.
Example: "She felt a certain burden to succeed in her new role, knowing the expectations placed upon her."
Alternatives: "a particular weight" or "a specific load".
There is, arguably, a certain burden on the viewer to approach works with these historical filters in mind.
But, he adds, "it seems to me that people who want to say, 'I'm in favor of a regime change, but not now,' have a certain burden to answer the question, 'O.K., well, when?"' The answer to that question remains a secret, if it has been decided at all.
Later, when he became the lodestar of the New York School, he came to feel that it was "a certain burden, this Americanness," by which he seems to have meant that the myth of new American art, like the myth of America itself -- as something untethered to history, unprecedented -- was an unsustainable concept.
I met him in a Sarajevo cafe a couple of years ago and he spoke movingly then of how he would lie awake at night wondering whether the war might have been averted or at least stalled if his Yugoslavia side had won the World Cup in 1990, while at the same time knowing it was an absurd thought and that football can carry only a certain burden.
Experts thinks so; that in an act of requesting a favour, you are putting a certain burden on the opponent to complete the task for you.
My reason for rejecting a principle might be, not so much that it imposes a certain burden on me, but the way in which it imposes that burden and what the principle thus says about me.
8 10 p.m. | Updated WASHINGTON — In recent years, policy makers in Europe and the United States have fastened on the notion that reaching a certain heavy burden of debt would threaten future economic health — often to justify austerity budgets that increased unemployment and sapped economic strength in the here and now.
But appealing to weak supervenience while denying strong generates a certain explanatory burden.
In general, then, we might say that the claim that S deserves a certain benefit (burden) in virtue of having done X is justified if and only if it would be fitting for observers to have a positive (negative) appraising attitude toward S in virtue of his having done X.
On one hand, it is well established that women tend to suffer from depression to a greater extent than men, which may imply that they are more vulnerable to certain burdens, but on the other hand, women also tend to have larger social networks and receive more social support.
13 But this statutory presumption does not reduce the offense to one of mere possession or shift the burden of proof; it merely places on the accused, at a certain point, the burden of going forward with his defense.
