Sentence examples for intended burden from inspiring English sources

And does anyone bemoaning the unbearable (pun intended) burden of a soda tax truly not know where to find a water fountain?

The ruling by the US district court for the western district of Wisconsin stated: "We find that Act 43 was intended to burden the representational rights of Democratic voters throughout the decennial period by impeding their ability to translate their votes into legislative seats.

Some systems of tort law allow for the award of 'punitive damages': these are intended to burden the defendant, and are typically awarded in cases in which the defndant was egregiously at fault, or acted maliciously.

When damages are awarded in such cases, they seem more like punishments that are intended to burden the wrongdoer, as a way of making moral reparation to the person wronged, than like an allocation of the costs of harm (see Duff 2001 94 966).

Another fight erupted over efforts to require prospective voters to show a photo ID, which Republicans promoted as a way to curb election fraud, and Democrats resisted as a burden intended to suppress the Democratic vote.

First, there is an obviously intelligible justificatory relationship between wrongdoing and censure as a response which is intended to impose a burden (the burden of condemnation by one's fellows) on an offender for his offence: whatever puzzles there might be about other attempts to explain the idea of penal desert, the idea that wrongdoers deserve to suffer censure is surely unpuzzling.

The rescue plan is intended to spread the burden of helping the authority among several groups.

It is intended to relieve the burden on Tunnel No. 2, which began operating in 1936.

LOW interest rates are intended to ease the burden on debtors, discourage saving, encourage spending and thereby revive the economy.

The law is intended to reduce the burden on Medicaid and help the centers serve 20 million more people.

This is intended to reduce the burden on taxpayers, while at the same time persuading other countries to ease Iraq's debt.