Sentence examples for civic burden from inspiring English sources

With the inauguration Barack Obama, the idea of sharing a civic burden has gained steam.

She said other parts of town carried the bulk of Fairfield's civic burden, including most ball fields, the garbage dump, the sewage treatment plant and the dog pound.

Newly-elected Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) announced Monday in his inaugural address that putting drug addicts and abusers in jail was placing an unsustainable financial and civic burden on his state.

The church of St. Sebastian was also probably begun at this time, and it was in these early years of his reign that Constantine began issuing laws conveying upon the church and its clergy fiscal and legal privileges and immunities from civic burdens.

It may be too heavy a burden of civic responsibility to expect every citizen to carry foreign aid numbers around in his or her head.

In remarks made Wednesday, Mr. Medvedev admitted that civic groups in Russia were "burdened by pounds of regulations".

And in 1977, amid the modern troubles of northern cities, he wrote an influential essay, Urban Decline in Late Medieval England, which showed that towns in that period had economic problems, but also suffered from a reluctance of civic leaders to accept the burdens of office.

With public finances under huge pressure at the moment in Reading the council needs to keep a tight rein on costs for the civic relocation project to ensure that an extra burden is not placed on local taxpayers".

"Older people are regarded as a burden on society, yet the evidence shows civic life is sustained by engaged, much older people.

"Tax abuse by multinational corporations increases the tax burden on other taxpayers, violates the corporations' civic obligations, robs developed and developing countries of critical resources to fight poverty and fund public services, exacerbates income inequality, and increases developing country reliance on foreign assistance," said the group.

Consequently, he argues, New Jersey's "vital government interests" in prohibiting discrimination outweigh any incidental burden on the expressive interests of a major civic organization that is chartered by Congress and stitched tightly to government at all levels.