Sentence examples for assumed the burden of from inspiring English sources
He logged more heavy minutes, lost another game, and still assumed the burden of explaining exactly what went wrong.
Godard has put himself in a singularly unenviable position: he has taken the entirety of the cinema upon himself, has identified its survival with his own, has assumed the burden of its fictional forms like the mark of sin.
Military service was a hereditary occupation: the eldest son assumed the burden of service, supported primarily by revenues from other members of the family who worked the land in the villages.
But when the video model no longer became tenable, BET followed its compatriots VH1 and MTV into reality programming, often about the lives of the young, fashion-conscious and largely well-to-do and assumed the burden of correcting reductive portraits of black life.
This is a young man who has spent his entire adolescence menaced by the looming spectre of these Olympics, a bum-fluffed face of the Games who has assumed the burden of prolonged expectancy even while, away from domestic eyes, the Chinese diving programme bore its own brilliant fruits.
But Harvey Levine, a former economist for the railroad association -- who now testifies on behalf of accident victims -- said the association study ignored the fact that Amtrak was already shouldering nearly $1 billion in losses each year, losses that the railroads themselves would have faced had Amtrak not stepped in and assumed the burden of carrying passengers.
The Haggadah supposes that, in every generation, we should imagine that we ourselves stood at Sinai and assumed the burdens of law.
But if he and others like him assumed the burdens of adulthood long before they arrived in Texas or California or Arizona, they are still teenagers.
Assume the burden of initiating the conversation by asking others questions about themselves.
They also held that the defendant pleading innocent by reason of insanity should assume the burden of proof.
