Sentence examples for as burdens from inspiring English sources

In this view, taxes can be depicted as burdens or as membership fees, driving public opinion this way or that.

Might they be especially likely, at that point, to see themselves as burdens and, if assisted suicide were legal, to request that their deaths come right away?

Older people and people with dementia can play valuable roles in – and make big contributions to – their communities: it's important not just to view them as burdens.

"I think these things are your essential markings," she explained, "and they may start out as burdens but they end up as gifts".

The illegitimate children of the poor were resented as burdens on the community, and there was a constant fear of venereal diseases spread by whores.

"The rightwing press has had a huge impact on demonising claimants and demonising disability and disabled people as burdens on the state – useless parasites; we have seen a sustained attack over the last few years.

Nor are they as burdened with crippling debt.

Credit to the girl, even so, that I'm not as burdened by it as usual.

I wanted the figure to read as burdened.

Few place names are as burdened with history as Soweto.

My young daughters, evidently, were in no sense as burdened as he was.