Sentence examples for on a burden from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, says Slepian, Varys is taking on a burden because he will have to think about, and conceal, Tyrion's secret.

"The biggest issue the US had with the Kyoto protocol was that the US was taking on a burden that developing countries didn't have to," he said.

Its debt should be eliminated, too, as the Iraqi people should not take on a burden that they had no say in acquiring.

Investing extra time instead of taking on a burden of debt could make financial sense.

"Before we were still figuring out our model and strategy, and it felt immature to take on a burden of funding now we know where we are and how we would want to invest it.

It would be ostrich-like to think that schools alone can take on a burden like getting young people to be more sexually responsible, just by education.

This creates more of a burden on the city".

"It became kind of a burden on us," Few said.

But yes, it puts more of a burden on us.

"Without strong leadership," he said, "ritual systems take on a huge burden of integrating people".

Conservative Catholics would take on a heavy burden in making Pius IX their poster pope.