Collocations withburden
These are words often used in combination withburden.
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added burden
However, on the margins, where older people did live alone and had the added burden of disability or frailty, circumstances were difficult.
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additional burden
These outcomes would all constitute additional burden in general practice.
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administrative burden
Monitoring is consigned to institution heads, which invites an almost unrealistic administrative burden.
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burden of care
They are the ones who will have to shoulder the majority of the burden of care and deal with emotional distress.
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burden of expense
Apart from the extra burden of expense that they place on an employer of whatever size, they are particularly harmful to smaller businesses.
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burden of guilt
The general stigma against obesity, which can lead to negative and prejudicial attitudes against obese people, often results in major personal suffering and a burden of guilt.
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burden of persuasion
The burden of persuasion for proving a probability standard is, of course, independent of the standard itself.
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burden of regulation
They are also worried about the burden of regulation.
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burden of taxation
These costs are of sufficient magnitude that it is evident that their economic impact is commensurable with the burden of taxation.
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computational burden
The computational burden can, in addition, be further reduced by exploiting the probabilistic relationships among the variables that are represented in the network's digraph.
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crushing burden
The poll tax for 1991–92 will be seen by many people as a crushing burden and it will be resented.
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cumulative burden
Others went down, and added to the figure, and still fewer industries were left to bear what is a cumulative burden.
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disproportionate burden
One line maintains that this disproportionate burden is not unfair as each set of parents, ex hypothesi, freely undertook the risk that their child's life might be overburdened.
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double burden
Women were allowed to retire earlier as a compensation for the double burden of having been in paid work - usually full-time - with simultaneous family responsibilities.
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economic burden
Getting married was always an economic burden on families, and the general economic situation could affect the chance of remarriage for both men and women.
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emotional burden
The interview was canceled for patients with an unresectable primary tumor or recurrent disease because of possible emotional burden.
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enormous burden
Besides the enormous burden in health resources, chronic transfusions with daily chelation compromise the quality of life, often resulting in non-compliance.
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excessive burden
Research on industrial towns has clearly evidenced the specific demography of the urban environment and, in particular, the excessive burden of mortality.
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extra burden
The presence of the parent in the home seems to facilitate joint care-giving by spouses, as does the extra burden of care for another parent.
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financial burden
Besides saving, some had considered taking up various insurances, most often life assurance, to reduce the financial burden on their children.
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fiscal burden
In addition, public provision of extension services represents a heavy fiscal burden for governments.
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great burden
Such demands can place a great burden on the engineers charged with carrying out the analysis.
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greatest burden
Correspondingly, men and women with the greatest burden of childcare responsibilities had increased risk of psychological distress, but this risk was significantly greater for men.
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growing burden
The sheer scale of investment for the health of souls (largely inspired by selfish concerns) placed a growing burden on succeeding generations.
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heavy burden
The rules of ritual purity imposed a heavy burden of domestic duty on the women in traditional families.
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huge burden
Since the grain is supplied at a subsidized price, the total subsidy also increases and has become a huge burden on the government's fiscal capacity.
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immense burden
That is clearly one reason for probation officers labouring under an immense burden about which we can only sympathise.
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intolerable burden
Here is one more attempt to persuade the world that an ageing population will not necessarily impose an intolerable burden on younger generations.
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onerous burden
However, the new provision may not have been expected to impose an especially onerous burden.
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overall burden
However, the overall burden of disease is considerably higher for zoster because over 80 % of cases occur in adults (less than 15 % for varicella).
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psychological burden
The feeling of the need to do more represents a form of psychological burden for them.
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reduced burden
They should have said that a reduced burden of taxation lightened the inflationary pressure and improved incentives.
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regulatory burden
States are informed that companies will reincorporate only if they are offered an attractive regulatory burden.
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rising burden
It broke that pledge within weeks of the general election, so it is now faced with a colossal and rising burden.
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substantial burden
Their production had been a substantial burden on the economy.
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terrible burden
It is a terrible burden for a little historical community !
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total burden
Direct costs of care are high, and direct nonmedical costs and indirect costs represent a large component of the total burden.
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tremendous burden
That is a tremendous burden to cast upon anybody.
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unbearable burden
It is the totality of these, in themselves, apparently bearable increases which may well lead to a crushing and unbearable burden.
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undue burden
The difference between the type annotations and the inferred type may go unnoticed by a library developer and thereby place undue burden on library users.
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unequal burden
The reason for these transfers is the unequal burden of urban pollution, agricultural productivity and reliance on dirty production.
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unfair burden
Obedience is not pointless in this circumstance; nor can patients who are held to the rules plausibly complain that their physician has placed an unfair burden on them.
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unnecessary burden
This was seen as an unnecessary burden on a productive countryside, and the party argued for their eventual extinction over a number of years.
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unreasonable burden
I believe that to be an unreasonable burden upon the police.
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