Sentence examples for common burden from inspiring English sources

But people living in rural regions of the United States, despite their vastly different histories and cultures, economies and geographies, share the common burden of isolation.

However, persistent organ shortage and the resulting widespread transplant backlog are part of a disturbing reality and a common burden felt by thousands of patients on waiting lists.

However, persistent organ shortage and the resulting widespread transplant backlog are part of a disturbing reality and a common burden felt by thousands of patients on waiting lists in almost every country where organ transplants are performed.

Unless the phrase 'free exercise', embodied in the First Amendment, means that government must render service free to those who earn their living in a religious calling, no reason is apparent why the appellant, like every other earner in the community, should not contribute his share of the community's common burden of expense.

For all of their obvious differences, Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James share a common burden: the idea that for all of their prodigious talent, they hadn't delivered in the biggest moments, that their lack of an N.B.A. championship reflected some sort of character flaw.

Payment delays for children receiving state subsidies were another common burden.

Under common burdens we say there is much virtue in the world, and what evil co-exists is inevitable.

Old towns may be divided, or a new town may be formed from parts of two or more existing towns; and the legislature, if they see fit, may apportion the common property and the common burdens, even to the extent of providing that a certain portion of the property of the old town shall be transferred to the new corporation.

Opposition is sometimes manifested; but it is everwhere acknowledged that the legislature possesses the power to divide counties and towns at their pleasure, and to apportion the common property and the common burdens in such manner as to them may seem reasonable and equitable.

Political subdivisions of the kind are always subject to the general laws of the State; and the Supreme Court of Connecticut decided that the legislature of that State have immemorially exercised the power of dividing towns at their pleasure, and upon such division to apportion the common property and the common burdens as to them shall seem reasonable and equitable.

In particular, Howe et al. (2004) study job loss within couples and conclude that "when a man loses a job the associated stresses of unemployment and financial strain are taken on as common burdens by both members of the couple, whereas when a woman loses a job she may be more likely to face those burdens alone" (p. 648).