Sentence examples for special burden for from inspiring English sources

Worse yet, business data must be churned electronically day and night, which means that computer specialists are often on call 24/7, a special burden for those with families.

The president said in a statement that higher-than-usual increases in the cost of home heating fuel had created a special burden for poor families, forcing them to choose between "food and other essentials, or a bare minimum of heat, in these winter months".

As he did throughout the past week, at meetings of the Group of 20 in Scotland last weekend and in Tokyo earlier this week, Mr. Geithner acknowledged that the United States carried a special burden for protecting the currency's value because it was the global reserve currency.

"We're all delighted that this is no longer a special burden for political scientists," Esarey says.

But the Razor Scooter's decline constitutes a special burden for Sharper Image because it creates such unfavorable year-over-year sales comparisons.

A pair of decisions from 15 years ago placed a special burden of liability on employers for harassing acts committed by an employee's supervisor, as opposed to a co-worker.

For much of the 1960s Mr. Poitier bore the special burden of being the only one.

All she overcame was the idea that this was the special burden of the modern period.

Australia, a country accustomed to placing unreasonable expectations on athletes wholly unprepared for the tasks demanded of them (Nathan Lyon, please bowl us our way to the Ashes), can sympathise with the special burden of the Scot's position.

Other cities and states have tried variations on "My Houston," but this subtropical metropolis of 2.2 million people, the nation's most sprawling city, spread over 630 square miles — large enough to encompass Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit — has a special burden: a reputation for banality, even ugliness.

While women are no longer classified as defective selves, the caregiving responsibilities that once defined their status as dependents on male heads of households continue to place a special burden on women for labor that is devalued in society.