Sentence examples for burdensome playing from inspiring English sources

In 2006, he was expected to be a leader, but he found the expectation burdensome, playing poorly as the Americans exited in the first round.

By the same token, it must be burdensome to play out the role of the ageing enfant terrible.

While some households are simply waiting for a more favourable market, the burdensome borrowing required to move up the housing ladder is also playing a big part in tempering demand.

"But it appears burdensome for a state-run institution to play a leading role" in buying the bank and take risks that may be more than financial.

These reasons were mentioned even more often by African respondents whereas patient related factors such as tools are too burdensome or do not reflect patients' situation played a minor role in the views of African professionals.

But government regulators tend to ignore Enron-like abuses as they build and then, once the scandal bursts, impose new and burdensome rules on all companies, including those that have played by the rules all along.

"I worry that such a description subtly plays into pernicious ideas about the Old Testament as burdensome and the New Testament as freeing.

Certainly, the burdensome and ever-changing demands that inspection imposes on teachers continue to play their part in lowering morale.

Harlequinade will be paired with Rattigan's monologue All On Her Own, never seen before in the West End, in which Zoë Wanamaker plays a woman alone in London at night with a burdensome secret to share.

Given the almost certain serotonergic activity of bromo-DMT compounds, it is possible they might play a key role in keeping the species free of burdensome epibionts.

The Seattle dinner party, he says, is "a rare and burdensome occasion... the regular standbys of the metropolitan table (national politics, new books and plays, salacious gossip) are of little use here.