Sentence examples for amount of the burden from inspiring English sources

"Less affluent areas, like Yonkers and Peekskill, shoulder an inordinate amount of the burden," he said.

When we went to a fees system we transferred an enormous amount of the burden on to the individual.

The federal and provincial governments share the costs of the system, but in recent years the provinces have borne an increasing amount of the burden.

They argued that an inordinate amount of the burden was placed on developed countries like the United States while developing countries could still pollute at much higher rates.

Yesterday's announcement came a month after a group appointed by Gov. Robert D. Orr recommended that the utility abandon the plant and that shareholders assume "a substantial amount" of the burden of recovering the money already spent.

Senator-turned-entertainment-lobbyist, Chris Dodd, thinks the standards don't go far enough, saying it's "an incremental step forward that addresses only a narrow subset of the problem and places a disproportionate amount of the burden on rights holders is not sufficient".

With a prevalence of 62.6%, the region carries a disproportionate amount of the national burden of trachoma.

A substantial amount of the NCD burden is attributable to four behavioural risk factors (notably poor diet, also smoking, alcohol and physical inactivity).

However, no correlation was observed between the amount of tumor burden in the lymph nodes analyzed and the similarity or discrepancy between the T and B cell grouping patterns.

Their analysis considered two dimensions: the amount of disease burden relieved by the service, and the cost/effectiveness of the intervention.

New characters are dependent on pre-existing traits, thus increasing the amount or rank of the burden of the older traits.