Sentence examples for burden of about from inspiring English sources

The company was near bankruptcy a few years ago under the burden of about $3.5 billion in long-term contracts for highly expensive electricity it had bought a decade earlier, as part of a state and federal initiative.

In 2012, Flint had a debt burden of about $1,600 per person, compared with only $400 in Burton.

Collectively, the three companies face a burden of about $100 billion for current and future health care benefits, far greater than at the parts suppliers.

While EU countries strained under an average debt burden of about 80% of GDP, Estonia's debt seemed absurdly low, at 8% of GDP.

If the rupiah's value erodes further, the country's burden of about $65 billion in dollar-denominated foreign debt would keep swelling, pushing more companies toward default and slowing the economy still more.

Steven Bandini, a tax partner at the accounting firm Zapken & Loeb, said that if the items were valued modestly at $50,000, they would probably carry a tax burden of about $14,000.

Write freely, without worrying about spelling or grammar, and without the burden of worrying about what others might think about the words you choose.

He's the auteur as Faust, a figure familiar from "making of" documentaries like "Burden of Dreams" (about Werner Herzog) and "Hearts of Darkness" (about Francis Ford Coppola).

Outside the specialist clinic the relative lack of knowledge about IPF in Primary Care added to the burden of uncertainty about future management.

Charitable giving lifts some of the burden of thinking about the needs of others.

In such cases, the burden of persuasion about the enforceability of the clause naturally rests with its proponent.