Sentence examples for might burden from inspiring English sources

A calamity on the scale of the World Trade Center attack might burden taxpayers with 100 times the liabilities.

Thus on global warming Mr. Bush says that he cannot accept controls that might burden the American economy.

The Supreme Court tells us that when Congress shifts copyright's traditional contours in a way that might burden speech, that shift is subject to ordinary First Amendment review.

Many who spoke at the public hearings expressed fear that added traffic might burden a mostly residential neighborhood, and health club owners raised their concerns.

Better a world of voluntary codes of practice and forums promoting responsibility than anything with teeth that might "burden" business or – shedding crocodile tears – "penalise the poor".

China's policymakers do not want another lending spree that might burden the financial system with more bad debt, on top of the borrowing accumulated during the previous binge.

Administration officials said the governor was concerned the rule might unfairly burden the energy industry.

"I want the AIDS bill to pass," Mr. Hyde said, "and I think misdirected attention to other issues might overly burden the AIDS bill".

On the other hand, greater enforcement would result in groups with lower helmet use receiving more citations and might further burden marginalized groups.

In contrast, false-positive errors might significantly burden participants (i.e., mentally, economically, and temporally) until the absence of disease is confirmed.

That would leave Americans wondering what our actual rights might be, burdened by a final, pervasive problem: the mendacity of the executive branch in defending these programs.