Sentence examples for burden has dropped from inspiring English sources
The household debt burden has dropped by about 5% of disposable income and helped keep the decline in home prices to a modest 3% in 2008, compared to double-digit drops in the U.S. and the U.K. Hong Kong investors will be eyeing property giant Cheung Kong Thursday as it tells investors about its latest financial results.
The average Michigander's tax burden has dropped significantly since Big John was in office.
This increasing disparity in wealth has been greatest for the top 0.5% of earners - the wealthiest of the wealthy - yet their tax burden has dropped from 70% in 1967 to 35% today (it was scheduled to "soar" to 39.6% until the Obama/McConnell tax deal of December 2010).
Despite positive economic trends -- the United States added three million jobs in 2014, stock markets remain near all-time highs and household debt burdens have dropped -- all is not well in wage-stagnated Middle America.
And naturally the burden on the criminal justice system has dropped precipitously.
Japan's tax burden is back to 1986 levels; its Misery Index number has dropped from 135% to 124%.
Some will wonder whether those with big incomes who have found devices to reduce their tax burden will abandon those devices simply because their tax rate has dropped by five percentage points.
HIV prevalence in Malawi has dropped from 11.4% in 2008 to 10.6% this year, but young women are still bearing a bigger burden than their male counterparts.
Crime has dropped sharply.
Staff turnover has dropped.
