Robert Kurson

So many of the pleasures of recreational scuba diving don't exist for the deep wreck diver. It's not beautiful scenery for the most part; in fact, it's usually very dark. It's physically burdensome. These guys carry almost two hundred pounds of equipment, and should any of that equipment fail, they risk death.

American Author

Saint Teresa of Avila

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

Spanish Saint

Richard Cobden

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

British Businessman

Robert Zubrin

Government attempts to ban fracking should be aborted. The government should lift the burdensome regulations that have made the construction of nuclear power plants excessively expensive, thereby freeing up even more natural gas for direct use or for methanol manufacture.

American Scientist

James E. Faust

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

American Clergyman

Henry Paulson

A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.

American Public Servant

Kay Ivey

From day one, my quest has been to ensure the world knows Alabama is open for business. By removing burdensome regulations on small businesses we are sending that signal loud and clear.

American Politician

Jonathan Safran Foer

When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

American Writer

Heather Mac Donald

Federal consent decrees - agreements between the federal government and a local agency to change how that agency operates - are burdensome, costly, and rarely justified.

American Editor

George Allen

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

Use 'burdensome' to express the emotional heaviness of tasks or responsibilities.

Emotional Weight

Don't use 'burdensome' for small inconveniences; it's for significant difficulties.

Exaggeration Caution

'Burdensome' can vary based on personal ability; what's burdensome to one may not be to another.

Personal Perspective

In business, 'burdensome' often refers to regulations or requirements that are hard to comply with.

Business Context

Use 'burdensome' in formal writing and discussions, especially when talking about laws or finance.

Formal Tone

In legal contexts use 'burdensome' next to words like regulations, documentation, or compliance.

Legal Collocations

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Demystifying the other...

 burdensome regulations that impede entrepreneurship but to replace those regulations with more innovative alternatives sometimes using transparency in the creation of new iPhone apps that will allow us both to protect consumers and the public and to

Demand a more...

 And I said that I thought communication within the marriage might be triggering some of their problems. But I was also struck by the burdensome nature of such mutual secrecy. Depression is so exhausting.

Depression, the secret...

 the same evolutionary processes that gave us this big brain allowed us to predict the future and see what a burdensome situation sex can put you in so along with that evolutionary