Instead, what we see gradually happening in climate-change negotiations (as in Bali in December) — and need to see more of in the areas of preventing nuclear proliferation and rebuilding failed states — is a far greater sense of a division of labor among the Big Three, a concrete burden-sharing among them by which they are judged not by their rhetoric but the responsibilities they fulfill.
But when they do, the psychological burdens and concrete costs (like lost school time or wages, or even psychological trauma) imposed by days, weeks, months, or years of incarceration will roadblock their efforts to reenter and become productive members of society.
Hill said he once kicked Burden down the concrete steps at the Art Basel show.
Lagarde, who has been pressing eurozone countries to provide Athens with "significant" debt relief, reiterated at the weekend that Greece's European creditors must make "concrete commitments" on relieving the debt burden.
The Japanese foreign minister, Koichiro Genba, said Friday morning that the agreement was "a forward-looking and concrete one that prioritizes reducing the burden on Okinawa, including the return of land".
Some patients, for example, stated that they felt they were a burden (=meaning) because they had concrete financial problems, which made them dependent (=reason).
Nutrition is a core pillar of human development and concrete, large-scale programming not only can reduce the burden of undernutrition and deprivation in countries but also can advance the progress of nations.
José Rivera's characters tend to live in a world where magical and concrete forces coexist, where life's anchoring burdens do battle with uncommonly potent wishes and dreams.
Masons may profess to enjoy working outdoors, but that does not ease the burden of lugging 100-pound bags of concrete to a job site or unloading a truckful of concrete blocks on a hot, muggy day.
… on the question of the possible administrative burden for companies: I have made concrete proposals to reduce this further.
To utilize lay counsellors to perform simple, rapid point-of-care tests for both syphilis and HIV could prove a concrete and feasible opportunity to reduce the disease burden of these two infections.
