To be sure, few European companies are as burdened by unfunded pension liabilities as some U.S. companies, particularly in old-line industries. |
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And chivalrous men become burdened by feelings of guilt and shame when they hear stories of husbands who beat up their wives. |
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The number of questions was limited in number so that the students were not unnecessarily burdened by the weekly assignment. |
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Many of our relationships are burdened by expectations, desires, hidden fears and unquestioned assumptions. |
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Twenty years ago this land was unusable and uninhabited, its soil burdened by a high degree of aluminium toxicity. |
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On top of this, women are burdened by suddenly being forced to be the sole breadwinners for their families. |
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A camel, burdened with a heavy load, slowly trudges across the hot desert sand with no relief from the burning sun. |
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Bustling in, burdened with packages, she had just returned from a twelve-hour day at The Children's Art Carnival. |
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Ants burdened with loads of leaf fragments march toward their underground fungal gardens. |
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You feel burdened by too much work or responsibility, its best to share and delegate work and not carry the entire load yourself. |
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Unfortunately we are burdened by a new system which requires an executive to respond to scrutiny proposals. |
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Our tester was burdened with a 10-pound snowboard strapped to his already portly pack. |
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Unfortunately in hurling, team officials are burdened with the extra task of finding volunteers as umpires and linesmen for almost all games. |
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This move should also help its subsidiary, Alliance Air, now burdened and handicapped by an aging fleet that has almost outlived its life span. |
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Unprofitable contracts can be ended, and property burdened with onerous obligations disowned. |
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Ginger shrimp smacked of iodine and were burdened with a thick, harshly bitter paste of a sauce. |
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The pointlessly beautiful game seems burdened with a vast weight of financial, cultural, political import. |
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Its balance sheet is burdened by long-term debt and preferred stock that must be redeemed. |
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It's more a quest for the tiny slices of life, the images not posed, not burdened by forced smiles or false camaraderie. |
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Sweden is not only burdened by an extensive welfare system, but also by powerful labor unions that sometimes seem out of control. |
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And then there are the people carriers built for a family of eight that are never burdened by anything more than a family of three. |
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I tore it open, burdened only by the prospect of having to dig through two solid inches of those awful Styrofoam peanuts to reach my treasure. |
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With the advent of 3D accelerators, the video memory was burdened with the additional task of buffering the 3D data. |
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They are burdened by years of indoctrination, with its bias against individual responsibility and risk-taking. |
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Another significant feature of the school is that pupils are not burdened with homework. |
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The hostel provides free luggage storage, so I won't be burdened with a pack that's larger than my torso. |
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Michelangelo never married, but he was burdened with a family and all its cares. |
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There is no longer a need to be burdened by diaper bags, bags of Cheerios and other baby-related accoutrements. |
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As a result, banks became burdened with bad debts and lending to companies for expansion dried up. |
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Its hero, Milo, is perpetually dejected, burdened with motiveless discontent. |
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Moreover, the budget was burdened annually to the tune of over 10 billion German marks by the war against the Kurds. |
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Footsteps, heavy and burdened echoed as a high pitched screech melded into a frightened scream. |
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She walked as though she was ashamed of her beauty, like it was a terrible curse she had been burdened with. |
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Brow furrowing, Shanza looked to the ground as they spent the rest of their walk pacing down the hallway in burdened but companionable silence. |
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Teachers, already burdened with the extra duties of census, official surveys, vaccination programmes and other sundry jobs, are bellyaching. |
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Perhaps the book helped him to relieve a conscience burdened by the knowledge that he was not carrying out the pastoral duties of his benefice. |
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The retail liquor trade in New York state in those days was burdened by antiquated laws and corrupt officialdom. |
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No longer burdened with the captaincy of a weak team, he is letting his bat do the talking as he has a new lease on life. |
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The truth of the matter is that as a community, we end up being more burdened financially when these big box stores move in. |
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Furthermore, the student translator is burdened with an extra workload which is rarely delegated to students who are English monolinguals. |
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The 1964 platform of the Republican Party did allow tax credits for those burdened by the costs of higher education. |
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The government, meanwhile, is burdened with a debt to rich creditors so mountainous it can simply never be repaid. |
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The only way that nuclear power can be economically viable is if the taxpayer is burdened with the huge costs of radioactive waste disposal and decommissioning. |
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Conservatives, on the other hand, burdened with no such principles, can let it rip. |
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Further, I never wanted to have a child who could possibly be burdened with what I grew up in. |
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Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic malady, dooms its sufferers to a short and burdened life. |
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A delicate mission, perhaps, to kindle friendship or extend love, but such is the structure of a psychology burdened by confrontation of animal hunger. |
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He was wonderful, with Laura Linney, as a burdened brother and sister looking after an ailing parent in The savages. |
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The little Irish maid entered, burdened with a tray laden with breakfast. |
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The progress of medical science has burdened society with a hoard of parasites, rentiers, pensioners, and other retired persons whom society has to support and even to nurse. |
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The lower middle class is a demographic group burdened by stigma. |
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The dress bizarrely burdened hurley with a ready-made character to play up to, which she did without overt complaint. |
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The plaintiffs charged that the law burdened low-income Indianans and others who lacked access to ids. |
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Unlike the other mendicant orders founded in the thirteenth century, the Franciscans were blessed, and burdened, by having a profoundly charismatic founder. |
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So, burdened with my rucksack and daypack, unshaven in T-shirt and travel combats, I wander among the besuited guests, conference attendees and dignitaries like a sore thumb. |
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Perhaps most important, the new carriers were not burdened with staffing levels that make those that existed in some of Britain's nationalised industries seem ungenerous. |
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They are burdened down with unnecessary bureaucracy and regulations. |
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The peninsula, in effect a half-island appended to Eurasia, is burdened with geographic features that tend to encourage predatory behavior on the part of the great powers. |
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Short of presenting him with a high-maintenance pet, such as a pony or a pair of chihuahuas, the presenters could hardly have burdened the man more heavily. |
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Modern scholars who deal with Israel's ancient political religion and the prophets who proclaimed its transformation are burdened with a scholarly spurious familiarity. |
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He suggests that the immigrant was critically burdened by a Gaelic culture, which had been dislocated from its homeland and stranded in an alien environment. |
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Image and virtual reality are everything these days, explaining why the city, burdened with an inferiority complex, forever sees itself as a cultural desert. |
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Benzodiazepines mainly used for anxiolysis are burdened by sedation, decreased attention span, memory deficits, addiction, and abuse potential. |
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He hasn't burdened us with an apparat of death research, paradigms, phases, and claptrap. |
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Among Russian travelers not so burdened by classical toponymy, Balkan was the preferred term. |
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His son William took over the running of the Eday estate in due course, but it became burdened with debt. |
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As a child he almost drowned while swimming a river burdened with a swag of fruit he'd scrumped. |
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Huckabee is also not burdened by, or beholden to, foreign investors. |
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The changing government burdened the Cossacks as well, extending its reach to reform the Cossack traditions. |
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I guess many of us were burdened by an inferiority complex because we were from the eastside. |
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Some of the State institutions, however, burdened as they are with a large and unassorted mass of pupils, have made most encouraging progress in this direction. |
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At the end of this quarantine period the head was transferred to a Royal Navy storeship, the Weymouth, which was also burdened with antiquities from Leptis Magna. |
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During the arms race of the Cold War, the Soviet economy was burdened by military expenditures, heavily lobbied for by a powerful bureaucracy dependent on the arms industry. |
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Councils were burdened with the task of pursuing the large numbers of defaulters, many of whom were acting as part of organised resistance to the charge. |
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