These burdens were often described as willingly taken on but bounded by one's tiaojian, the economic, cultural, and social resources one had access to.
Anglo-Saxon companies have often willingly taken on social obligations without the prompting of government.
"He has effectively turned his back on the United States and has willingly taken on citizenship to identify henceforth as a German," Rosensaft said.
Even though our program development process uses existing staff to implement the program, we still benefit from highly motivated individuals who have willingly taken on new duties to improve the quality of care.
Here was one of the world's leading conductors willingly taking on the duties of an ordinary composer, awkwardly but genially trying to give his little kite a better chance of taking the breeze, pleading to a public whose patience is wearing away by the second.
Frank Lampard, Ricardo Carvalho, Esteban Cambiasso, John Terry, Walter Samuel, Didier Drogba, Diego Milito, Paulo Ferreira and more were all born between 1978 and 1980, and all willingly took on board everything Mourinho had to say.
This was shown in rural India, where a growing number of women are willingly taking on loans to build toilets, even though repayment rates are high.
With Met veterans willingly taking on small roles, like Ruth Ann Swenson as a golden-voiced Princess and Wendy White as the stern Mama, this performance was an impressive company effort.
Just count me among those who are skeptical that our State Legislature will willingly take on any of these complicated and unpopular issues without some brute force being applied.
The Mary who sits in her darkened house in Ephesus would not, I think, willingly take on the prayers of the world; all that she wishes for, she tells us at the book's close, is to confine dreams to the night-time and living to the daytime, and to live "in full recognition of the difference between the two".
Most saliently, it seems to mimic that of species like the social hymenopterans (such as ants, bees, and wasps), where some individuals (sterile workers) seem to willingly take on a massive fitness cost (namely, sterility) (Keller and Chapuisat 2010).
