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burdens

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Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley ruled that the law “unreasonably burdens” the right to vote.

There are already numerous burdens placed on physicians to keep practicing their profession.

Richard got a face transplant, a new life, and a new set of burdens too strange to predict.

Power has withered at the center and devolved to an archipelago of fiefdoms where warlords rule without the burdens of governing.

Designing homes with solar as a standard imposes some burdens on developers.

Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.

And when I look at the burdens to which the land of this country is subject, I do not consider the fixed duty of 8s.

Consequently the House gave a friendly reception to a Bill intended to relieve them of some of their pecuniary burdens.

To whatever extent the grants of royal domains were revoked, those burdens would be lightened.

If you would escape Time's bruises and his heavy burdens which weigh you to the earth, you must be drunken.

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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to burdens, such as: load, duty, onus, hardship, strain, and tax.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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