Given that all of our shoulders, but Mr. Obama's especially, are burdened enough right now, discussions about the future of liberalism are surely passé, if not outright frivolous.
"As much as I'm a believer that nightmares make coping harder, I don't want to put more burden on you right now," he said.
We're being burdened with debt right now.
Rome: I think it's a huge burden off our shoulders right now.
"So putting additional burdens on American families right now, I think, is a mistake," he said.
But right now the burden is on the president.
"The cost of college is such a burden for so many people right now that they are wiling to sacrifice some of the … opportunity for in-state students just to lower the costs," said Drew Lieberman of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, the Democratic half of the polling team.
One of the burdens of being a writer right now is that you have to compete with so many other kinds of media.
Road crashes are by no means the hot public health and development issue of the day, yet, according to a report out this week, they are, right now, a crippling burden on health systems across low and middle-income countries.
