Sentence examples for mere burden from inspiring English sources

But the man who has carried only rocks thinks the stones are a mere burden.

It may be that the mere burden of work gave rise to some non-responses to items or non-completion of entire data records.

Proof-of-concept will indicate that the mere burdening of ER Golgi function may present a therapeutic target in protein-secreting cells such as myeloma.

Surety bonds are far from a mere regulatory burden on businesses.

Since they are mere beasts for burden in a man's game — a rich man's game — the protests are mute.

Why, for example, should the controlling power have felt obliged to burden us mere mortals with our own supposed autonomy?

Let those well-toned athletes pitch in and help the people who are no doubt exhausted by the burden of mere survival.

13 But this statutory presumption does not reduce the offense to one of mere possession or shift the burden of proof; it merely places on the accused, at a certain point, the burden of going forward with his defense.

I have no idea whether it's dogma, paternal sentimentality, or mere actorly choice that burdens him in "After Earth," but the result is the diminution of a superb performer, his self reduced to a celebrity emblem that advertises the movie from within.

From an emotional standpoint, Williams's mere presence had become a burden.

In a democratic Argentina, being an artist and politically engaged means shouldering a burden greater than mere opposition.