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The largest burden of disease after these events is probably mental health issues.
The world will sink under the burden of mental dead weights such as yourself.
Apart from the disease itself, the financial burden of cancer treatment is a major source of stress for patient and family.
It is the burden of those who claim that he was not the author to overcome that presumption.
But it's easier to preserve bodies than minds, and a few centuries of memories can be a burden.
Making the burden of childhood obesity all the more heavy.
Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible.
By this standard, the burden continues generally to ease.
For one, it would impose virtually no burden on operators, despite their huge environmental footprint.
As the population rises, public transportation worldwide bears a heavier burden.
Publishing is a lot more fun when you're freed from the burden of profitability.
It means that the revenue burden falls too heavily on honest taxpayers.
In theory, any nation can shoulder the burden of prosecution.
And that burden would get heavier as the cap got tighter.
Now the debt burden reflects the shift in the balance of economic power from rich countries to developing ones.
Deflation is particularly deadly when an economy has lots of debt, because falling prices swell the real debt burden.
If you propose a theory or hypothesis, the burden of proof falls on you, not the other way around.
But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending.
And it's never been designed to be anything but a burden.
In ten years that burden will fall on only two workers.
Yet over time immigrants more than repay the extra short-term burden they impose on education, health and other budgets.
Human biology reorganized itself to cope with the punishing burden of our oversize thinking parts.
He talked about how the burden of student loan debt is likely to put homeownership out of reach for many grads.
The burden of producing clean power is being shifted to the electric utilities.
If this isn't a burden that nations want to take on, so be it.
While the financial burdens have been horrific for this author, the psychic burden appears to have also weighed heavily.
Life my exist in waterless environments, but looking on every planet would be a burden.
The tyranny of ageing is less the waning of physical strength than the burden of surviving life and loss.
The burden of health-care costs has grown heavier, and so have we.
If it gets covered by insurance, that burden is distributed to everyone else in the form of higher premiums and co-pays.
Our burden is to make people read, even if the books tread on dangerous ground.
But, until the revolution arrives, college students must bear the burden of the high cost of reading.
There is a way to reduce the debt burden, but it has to be done as part of a well thought out and properly executed plan.
Both are infrastructure-based businesses where the network is a substantial cost burden that is multiplied by peak use.
Multiply these costs across nations, and the burden on the global economy is significant.
The burden of valuation is on the killer whose ground is nihilistic.
Indeed, in journals in those days, the burden of proof was generally on the opponents rather than the proponents of new ideas.
With so many pressing urban challenges, they see wastewater reuse as an added burden with no direct or immediate value.
These utilitarian beasts of burden are expected to do one critical thing without fail: wake us up in the morning.
And the larger your income, no matter the source, the less payroll taxes figure as part of your overall federal tax burden.
So some homeowners may be tempted to default and escape the burden of negative equity.
Another felt crushed by the burden of supporting a large family after his father died.
In a criminal case, prosecutors have the sole burden of proof.
But hybrid athletes must bear an additional burden-convincing people that their sports are actually sports.
But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality.
It might even lessen the burden on service providers and content distributors.
Given its population burden and its economic trajectory.
They point out that its debt burden is no worse than in other parts of the rich world.
Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them.
It is a pretty heavy burden to bear, however, based on the evidence revealed to date.
As crops dry up and farmers migrate to urban shantytowns lacking clean water and basic sanitation, the burden is amplified.
It is rare that such topics have formed the burden of communications with the department of state.
Often overlooked, though, is the financial burden for many families with autistic children.
We eat the chicken and take on an extra toxic burden and more fat cells are formed.
The burden on the countries that have been rescued is enormous.
Delaying the funding of benefits and pensions now will make the burden much heavier later.
The result is less burden on the refereeing population, and more scientific substance per paper.
But let's not burden albatrosses with our metaphors.
Giving them this responsibility and the tools seems to be a burden.
The burden of proof for supernatural claims lies with the claimant.
To supplant the current view that the mind is generated by the brain, the burden of proof is really with the supplanter.
Countries with greenery in their veins are being asked to take more of the burden than newer members.
But that's a crushing burden to shoulder, too much by far to wish on anyone.
It's such a burden to make them and then break them.
That is a burden which makes the job more difficult.
The burden of proof rests, in any event, with those who would urge war.
As the state burden for healthcare has risen, funding for higher education has declined.
Tobacco-related illness imposes a huge burden on individuals, families and society as a whole.
The fourth threat facing the industry is its refinancing burden.
They were literally singing for their supper, for without the right to inherit, they were a burden on their families.
The burden's on you to think of a better explanation for the results here.
They spare the publisher the burden of warehousing paper copies.
Cap-and-trade and non-natural capture schemes only increase the expense of energy and add to the burden of poverty.
There, and elsewhere, tax rises need to bear some of the burden.
Property wealth is shrinking and consumers are weighed down by a debt burden made heavier by falling wages.
The extra knowledge is helping him to avoid a psychotic episode but he still largely bears the burden of the condition.
The wreath of fur is somewhat akin to wearing a woolen scarf at the peak of summer-a hot and heavy burden around the neck.
TV is supposed to be a respite from the burden of human interaction, not another dysfunctional relationship.
Students are lugging the financial burden well after graduation.
Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.
But businesses in low-income countries still struggle with twice the burden of regulation as those in high-income countries.
Many poor households see their daughters as an economic burden and would rather send them off quickly to their husbands.
The burden will extend to the unpaid caregivers as well, who are already lacking sufficient societal support.
Every man shall bear his own burden.
The whole emotional burden of adolescence is that you don't know why you feel unhappy, or angry, or out of it.
He spent much of his time alone with nature, hence there was little clutter in his mind, little burden.
It also needs to limit the fiscal burden on its children even if this entails defaulting on its debt.
They will inherit a huge national debt and a high and rising payroll-tax burden.
Theories move on burden of proof, as the evidence becomes more and more substantive.
Not without some hesitation, moreover, did the author determine to burden his drama with a preface.
In study after study, this extra work turned out to be a huge burden.
Catch share programs, in which regional fishery councils divvy up quota shares to fishermen, could help ease this burden.
But the following generations are smaller, leaving the children of the boomers with a huge cost burden.
Meanwhile, the heavy burden of coursework bores and holds back more able students.
Yet her contention, backed up by research, that motherhood is a burden seldom embraced unconditionally has profound implications.
But there are many students who don't qualify for whom the book costs are a burden.
The book had 200 pages that needed to be done and it became a burden.
Each of these witness memoirs had to bear an awful burden, standing in for the thousands of memoirs that would never be written.
More reliance on instructors and adjuncts also puts more administrative burden on full-time tenure-track professors.
Income groups from left to right, and change in tax burden shown on the vertical scale.
As with so many public-health issues, a disproportionate part of the burden appears to be falling on the poorest of the poor.
Regarded as a burden in her new home, the girl is treated like a servant.
He was free of the burden, free of the pressure, free of the camera's eye.
Whites do not bear the burden of representing the whole race.
Nor is it a burden on the utility by being variable as they are already set up for that as loads are even more variable.
The credit crunch has shifted the burden of servicing that debt from the private to the public sector.
It's an escalating burden on our families and businesses.
As usual for conspiracy nuts, you're trying to shift the burden of proof.
The couple squeeze into the backseat, she carrying a bright blue gym bag, he the dull burden of history.
And sharks have an added burden: they sink when they stop swimming, so they must be in constant motion.
So admit that the regulatory burden is strangling the economy or admit that you mistakenly slipped.
Sceptics claim that this burden of responsibility is crushing the spirit of scientific inquiry.

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