Sentence examples for weighty burdens from inspiring English sources

For some of them, the looming investigations and recent misfortune were weighty burdens.

These were fine assets for a city with ambitions to become the cultural hub of Central Europe, but they proved weighty burdens when the city lost the financial privileges of being the cold war capital.

Even so, Mr Montezemolo is adding that job to the weighty burdens of the chairmanship and managing directorship of Ferrari, Fiat's high-performance car subsidiary and Formula One business, as well as to the chairmanship of Confindustria, the employers' confederation, that he took over on the day Umberto Agnelli died.Mr Montezemolo will not be alone at the top.

As he laid a wreath at the Cross of Sacrifice with his fellow politicians, Cameron looked grey and exhausted – mindful, perhaps, of the weighty burdens borne by those who seek to lead nations and thus can send men to their deaths.

Rimington admitted it had been "a weighty burden being a judge but also extremely enjoyable and entertaining".

But then one wonders if Weinberg's opera could ever have been good enough – it isn't – for the weighty burden it sought to carry.

Among other things, they say, the bills could make sites responsible for all content or links posted by their users, a weighty burden for social sites.

Days before Green turned 63 he sold BHS, after years of trying to offload the weighty burden of the group's pension fund liabilities and trading losses.

Having a country's hopes resting on your shoulders, especially with the Olympics in your hometown, can be a weighty burden.

The story gave Depardieu a weighty burden of constraint and pain to carry — and an eruptive rage that burst out from under it.

It's a weighty burden to drop on the scrawny shoulders of some ten-year-old boy or girl, standing hunched and terrified before a scowling, correction-bent teacher.