burden
Example Sentences
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Both have higher burdens of proof than asylum but don’t provide a pathway to citizenship.
From Los Angeles Times
South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia were to begin on Monday administering a groundbreaking new HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world's highest HIV burden.
From Barron's
Apparently, Kennedy has never heard of the burden of proof or the extreme difficulty in proving a negative.
From Salon
By leveraging the threat of costly and unpredictable litigation, dominant firms burden their competitors financially and create uncertainty that undermines customer confidence in those rivals—ultimately steering business and market share toward themselves.
The announcement came a week after Takaichi unveiled a substantial economic stimulus package that includes measures to help households bear the burden of rising living costs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
