Sentence examples for former burden from inspiring English sources

But to prove the horrors of imperial rule — or to dispute the historians who recommend that the United States self-consciously adopt Britain's former "burden" — one has only to examine the catastrophic choices of British colonialists that continue to influence events today.

However, Leiter's account distinguishes between choosing only men for the priesthood and regulating clothing: the former imposes burdens on third-parties and so should not be exempted, while the latter typically does not involve burden-shifting.

Meanwhile, former students burdened with federal student loans either have to repay their debts or face the devastating consequences of a default.

Between 1993 and 2007, the company paid out a hundred and three billion dollars to those former workers — a burden unimaginable to its foreign competitors.

By 2001 the lead detective on another spinoff, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," was a former altar boy burdened with a schizophrenic mother and a disturbing ability to bond with criminals and the criminally insane.

Other actors, including Chris Noth and Jeff Goldblum, rotated in and out of the series, but the show was always wrapped around the oversize persona of Goren, a former altar boy burdened with a schizophrenic mother and a disturbing ability to bond with killers.

Nevertheless, heavy stigma has burdened former detainees looking for work or community acceptance.

The former specifies the future burden due to a given exposure event, while the latter summarizes the current burden due to the set of exposure events experienced in the past.

Yorkey also met with Burden's former D.C. counterpart, Harriet Tregoning.

Such a configurational structure formed by scrambling operation predicts that the scrambled sentences have a more complex structure than canonical sentences, and that the former requires a greater burden on cognitive processes in related areas within the brain.

One of the biggest difficulties is the financial burden on former prisoners and their families after months or years of confinement.