burden.

If these patients survive, he adds, that means the often-disabling consequences become "a long-term burden."

Giving Weight to the Other Cholesterol 2009

High social spending has reduced the pressure on European governments to adopt bigger stimulus measures like the U. S.'s, but policy makers acknowledge it is also a long-term burden.

Europe's Social Benefits Are at Risk 2009

The joke about Sarah Palin's daughter that she calls her burden.

CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2009 2009

RUSS BENNETT, IRAQ WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDER: And you use the word burden.

CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2008 2008

Yet it is not so much a "dilemma" Darden describes as a burden.

The Darden Dilemma 2008

Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, now how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden.

On being a book's godfather DC 2007

“She has never been anything I could call a burden.”

The Ambassadors 2003

This kind of poem is much improved by what is called a burden.

Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book 1886

"She has never been anything I could call a burden."

The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

Cisneros on their comments in the June 24 article Tighter ozone standards called a burden.

Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories 2010