Sentence examples for a lesser burden from inspiring English sources

Progressive tax, tax that imposes a larger burden (relative to resources) on those who are richer; its opposite, a regressive tax, imposes a lesser burden on the wealthy.

Similarly, fish farming puts a lesser burden on the Earth in terms of carbon and freshwater use than pretty much any form of terrestrial animal husbandry.

However, the civil case is continuing, is unaffected legally by the dropping of criminal charges, and has a lesser burden of proof.

The government has a lesser burden in justifying military detention before a habeas corpus court than it has in convicting a terrorist of a crime at trial.

And if there are other, reasonable ways to achieve those goals with a lesser burden on constitutionally protected activity, a State may not choose the way of greater interference.

"Just because a country has a bigger burden of infectious disease, that doesn't mean they have a lesser burden of chronic disease," said Institute of Medicine President Harvey Fineberg.

The ranking for diarrhoea accurately suggests a far lesser burden among neonates compared with older infants and young children worldwide.

It was selected for this study because it allows a lesser respondent burden which was important given the burden of multiple self-report scales.

Though a lesser radiation burden than digital subtraction angiography (DSA), CE-CTA is a relatively high-dose procedure, on average 13.7 mSv per study using a 4-slice scanner [36, 37].

Alternately, although more diseases might accumulate, better management could result in a lesser overall burden on health.

One possible explanation for this outcome is the strict definition of recurrence as any AF episode during follow-up; a lesser AF burden might positively influence EF evolution.