Sentence examples for being burdens on from inspiring English sources

During the 1950's and 1960's, Chinese cities and villages publicly humiliated people who contracted sexually transmitted diseases by denouncing them in front of co-workers and accusing them of being burdens on society.

"Large numbers of young people will end up being burdens on society and on themselves because a lot of parents or guardians just don't know how to respond," said Theodore R. Sizer, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.

Just using the (sugar-tax relevant) examples of obesity and dentistry, despite the relentless unfair criticism that obese people receive for being "burdens" on the NHS, it's not always that simple to access lifesaving treatment such as gastric bands.

Sometimes I feel this life is burdening on me," she says, as another plane howls over the house.

The notices thus are burdens on books and purport to make a violation of the notice (rather than the statute) copyright infringement.

They worry about their mental health deteriorating, and being a burden on their loved ones.

I think it's because it's a burden on the recipient to reply.

Like me, they thought they wanted to cease being a burden on someone they loved.

That this is a burden on the UK is a point that hardly needs labouring.

The fear that green technologies are a burden on the economy is false fear.

Taxes are a burden on innovation – This may be true of some taxes.