Burdened Sentence Examples

I was miffed that I was the sole person burdened with straightening out this mess.

It isn't that I don't want to be burdened with the work.

For in requiring these religions to impart certain prescribed religious truths, and to inculcate the highest moral tone, it burdened them with problems to which they were unequal.

She was burdened with debt; the reforms of Colbert were ruined; and opposition to the king's regime began to make itself felt.

The result was that the national treasury became burdened with a heavy annual interest charge, payable abroad in gold, which did not tend to diminish, and had a long period to run before the expiration of the contracts.

He retired into private life, heavily burdened with debts incurred during his tenure of office and narrowly escaping arrest even before he quitted Whitehall.

In spite of the increase of deep-sea soundings in the last few decades, they are still very irregularly distributed in the open ocean, and the attempt to draw isobaths (lines of equal depth) on a chart of the world is burdened with many difficulties which can only be evaded by the widest generalizations.

The freshness, the air of leisure, the enthusiasm of discovery that mark the work of these old writers have lessons for the modern professional zoologist, who at times feels burdened with the accumulated knowledge of a century and a half.

Private owners so burdened may sometimes claim a special toll from passengers, called a "toll traverse."

To protect these adventurers and to secure for itself the largest possible share in these new sources of wealth, the Spanish crown forbade the admission of foreigners into these colonies, and then harassed them with commercial and industrial restrictions, burdened them with taxes, strangled them with monopolies and even refused to permit the free emigration thither of Spaniards..

But Peter, when once re-established as king, forgot his obligations and left the prince burdened with the whole expense of the campaign.

A stern expression of the lofty, secret suffering of a soul burdened by the body appeared on her face.

It never occurred to me that you would want to be burdened with the details.

The performance, directed by Hans Richter, excited extraordinary attention; but the expenses were enormous, and burdened the management with a debt of £7500.

The Welsh causes at Manchester and London, too, gave him much uneasiness, and burdened him with great responsibilities at this juncture.

Of the expenditure more than ten million dollars annually went for the public debt, 5.5 to 6 millions for the army and navy, as much more for civil administration (including more than two millions for purely Peninsular services with which the colony was burdened); and on an average probably one million more went for sinecures.

But they were burdened by the necessity of supplying literary as well as theological training, owing to the disabilities of Nonconformists at Oxford and Cambridge till 1871.

England's attempt to make the colonies pay the expenses of the war by means of the stamp tax thoroughly aroused the opposition of commercial New York, already chafing under the hardships imposed by the Navigation Acts and burdened with a war debt of its own exceeding £300,000.

The War of Independence left the state heavily burdened with debt and many of its citizens threatened with a debtor's prison.

Since 1579 he had lived mainly at Barn Elms, Barnes, maintaining an adequate establishment; but his salary did not cover his expenses, he was burdened with his son-in-law Sir Philip Sidney's debts, and he obtained few of those perquisites which Elizabeth lavished on her favourites.

By his extravagance the king exhausted the treasure amassed by his father, burdened his country with heavy taxes, and reduced its finances to chaos.

Only of certain districts, however, can it be said that they are positively unhealthy; to this category belong some parts of the Holland provinces, Zeeland, and Friesland, where the inhabitants are exposed to the exhalations from the marshy ground, and the atmosphere is often burdened with sea-fogs.

Imprisoned in the garment of flesh, burdened with its sin, souls long to be clothed upon with the habitations they left in heaven.

In other words, Egypt was burdened with a debt of 91,000,000 funded or floatingfor which she had no return, for even from the Suez Canal she derived no revenue, owing to the sale of the khedives shares.

He brought a vast amount of information from the most varied and distant sources to confirm his opinions, and the abundance of his materials never perplexed or burdened him in his argumentation, but examples of well-conducted historical argument are rare in his pages.

The Latin version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum, a document compiled probably in the i rth century, not long before the Conquest, renders geneat (a peasant tenant of a superior kind performing lighter services than the gebur, as he was burdened with heavy week-work) by villanus; but the gebur came to be also considered as a villanus according to AngloNorman terminology.

Those of them, however, who have farms in the savannahs and are accustomed to take long rides in all weathers, and those whose trade obliges them to take frequent journeys in the mountainous interior, or even to Europe and North America, are often as active and as little burdened with superfluous flesh as a Scotch farmer.

They were burdened by an abnormal urgency of desire and capacity for suffering, which no doubt took different phases in the man and the woman, but linked them together in a common susceptibility to ideal pain.'

More jurist than theologian, John defended the rights of the papacy with rigorous zeal and as rigorous logic. For the restoration of the papacy to its old independence, which had been so gravely compromised under his immediate predecessors, and for the execution of the vast enterprises which the papacy deemed useful for its prestige and for Christendom, considerable sums were required; and to raise the necessary money John burdened Christian Europe with new taxes and a complicated fiscal system, which was fraught with serious consequences.

Swift's pamphlets, written in a style more level with the popular intelligence than even his own ordinary manner, are models alike to the controversialist who aids a good cause and to him who is burdened with a bad one.

He had been an admirable servant to both, full of zeal, intelligence and energy, and not too much burdened with scruples.

An Exemption From The Alcavala, And, Though Still Burdened With Other Heavy Taxes, Were In Consequence In A Comparatively Flourishing State.

This time around, the film is burdened with too many subplots and a far too talky approach.

The land or property which is burdened is called the servient tenement.

Rose Marie, burdened with her own tragedy, instead has found the only companionship she needs in her heartache.

Wandering through mountain scenery at your own pace, without being burdened by the weight of a heavy rucksack.

The rustic class appears in them to be differentiated into several subdivisions - the geneats performing riding duties and occasional services, the geburs burdened with week work and the cotsets holding cottages and performing light work in the shape of one day in the week and services to match (see Villenage).

By contrast, Europe is stagnating and burdened with double digit unemployment, and Asia is floundering in the wake of financial collapse.

When we're young, we aren't burdened with all that knowledge and our minds tend to be a bit more adventurous, able to see myriad possibilities.

The wrong person, however well meaning, will have difficulty overseeing your estate and may wind up feeling burdened by the responsibility.

Many men feel less burdened by economic concerns when their wives are contributing to the family's income and report that having fewer anxieties about money actually improves their relationship with their spouse.

Although hardly revolutionary, backpack diaper bags streamline the mobility of baby supplies for heavily burdened mothers.

Since backpacks can weigh a lot once books and other items are placed inside, you will want to choose a size that your child can carry easily and not be overly burdened.

Although single parents are burdened with full responsibility of their children, take the time to remember that your child is a gift, and use this alone time to create lasting one-on-one memories that will last a lifetime.

Making sure your children won't be burdened by your care late in life is the best choice."

The darkness the music video possesses pairs well with lines like "I've dealt with my ghosts and faced all my demons" and "I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long."

Mortgage payments have also heavily burdened Kate Gosselin and her family.

In any event, this hefty and complex novel follows young Ary2 as she grows and rises to power, dealing with the expectations that her creation has burdened her with.

While some people feel embarrassed and burdened by their distinctive marks, others find the mere sight of freckles to be cute.

Unfortunately, modern society, especially in the United States, has become burdened under a legal system that encourages lawsuits.

No wonder he thought she didn't want to be burdened with the details.

Land is not so heavily burdened by the government quota as by the additional centimes imposed by the provincial and communal authorities.

Crispi, burdened by the premiership and by the two most important portfolios in the cabinet, was, however, unable to exercise efficient control over all departments of state.

Thus, behind the screen of the normal shares a number of small tenancies arise which run their economic concerns independently from the cumbersome arrangements of tenure and service, and, needless to add, all these tenancies are burdened with money rents.

The law, however, enabled provinces most heavily burdened by land tax to accelerate their portion of the survey, and to profit by the reassessment of the tax on the new basis.

So young, and burdened with such riches--to what temptations he will be exposed!

She preceded him into the house and swiftly burdened the table with lunch.

Efforts to hasten this development have created some serious financial and industrial crises, and have burdened the country with heavy debts and taxes.