Sentence examples for avoid being burdened from inspiring English sources
In office jobs, there's one foolproof way to avoid being burdened with certain time-consuming tasks: develop a reputation for being rubbish at them.
Several GOP operatives have privately said that failure would not be a total disaster for the party, because no one loves the bill, and moderates could avoid being burdened by it.
The strategy helped Saks avoid being burdened with excess stock in January, but rival shops were made to look very expensive and felt they had to follow suit.Nordstrom, a department-store group, reported a 68% fall in fourth-quarter net profit, thanks to a decline in margins prompted by price cuts.
Imagine, phone users, and lots of them, willing to pay real money, up to $3.99 apiece, to avoid being burdened by the nuisance of banner commercials encumbering their content.
"She told me the best thing you can do is have money to retire," Angelopoulos said, to avoid being a burden on her daughter.
Outside factors, like a desire to maintain a marriage or to avoid being a burden to their children, are often motivators.
"She told me, the best thing you can do is have money to retire," Ms. Angelopoulos said, to avoid being a burden on her daughter.
Most elderly people, when they themselves become dependent, concur with this belief: the wish to avoid "being a burden" on the next generation is a powerful and transcultural one.
In Washington, nearly two-thirds of those supplied with lethal drugs in 2013 gave, as one of their reasons for requesting them, that they wanted to avoid being a burden on others.
"What we have to avoid at all costs is a world in which vulnerable and terminally ill people feel that because assisted suicide is lawful, it is somehow incumbent upon them to take this step to avoid being 'a burden' on others.
The best argument against the bill – that it might exert pressure on the elderly to kill themselves to avoid being a burden – are well answered by Falconer's tightly drawn terms: this is only for those standing at the gates of death, with a terminal diagnosis of six months or less.
