What's the difference between burdensome and onerous?

Burdensome


Definition:

  • (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although Menzies, et al., report that survival rates are higher than previously expected and that in most cases the children's and parents' lives appear not to be excessively burdensome, the Working Group contends that there "continues to be ethical justification for selective treatment" of such newborns.
  • (2) So if some trustees feel that increased demands on their time will be too burdensome, it best to leave the field open to others.
  • (3) It would reduce burdensome regulation on business and help rebalance the economy towards exports.
  • (4) Collection, storage and retrieval of large amounts of data from multiple experiments for subsequent reduction, graphing and statistical analysis need not be a burdensome task.
  • (5) Eventual mastery of the burdensome experience involves reorganization of the individual's "assumptive world," namely of his intrapsychic maps of external reality and his internal system for guiding and motivating his behavior, which have been disorganized by the loss of their anchorage in the ruptured attachment.
  • (6) While these ethical responsibilities can be overwhelmingly burdensome, they can also be opportunities.
  • (7) Close collaboration between toxicologists and the authorities responsible for drawing up toxicological regulations is called for in order to ensure that the rules applied during the important and fascinating process of discovering and developing new drugs do not become unnecessarily burdensome.
  • (8) Should, then, oven manufacturers pay electricity companies for all that burdensome work they have to do to keep ovens working – especially when lightbulbs are so low-strain?
  • (9) As part of our long-term economic plan, we will sweep away burdensome red tape, get heavy handed regulators off firms’ backs and create a small business conciliation service to help resolve disputes.” It is estimated that small businesses are owed £32bn in late payments but are often unaware of their rights or are reluctant to take legal action, fearing they will lose future business.
  • (10) A large aspect of the research has been interviewing businessmen and women confronted by the burdensome issue of what to do with more money than they could ever spend in a lifetime.
  • (11) "Over 70% of firms see dismissal rules as burdensome to their business.
  • (12) Struggling businesses must be liberated from burdensome environmental regulations.
  • (13) Regulations, especially employment regulations, are particularly burdensome for small businesses and these should be radically simplified.
  • (14) Efforts to quash the subpoena require proof that the materials requested are irrelevant to the case, not subpoenaed for "good cause," or that compliance would be unduly oppressive and burdensome.
  • (15) It’s an attempt to withhold abortion from nearly all women in the US through burdensome regulation intended to stop insurers from covering abortions.
  • (16) The Red Tape Challenge states proposals will be reviewed by a ministerial “Star Chamber” with the presumption that burdensome regulations would disappear go unless they could be justified.
  • (17) The equation for the calculation of E from measured PET data is mathematically complex and its direct application in the generation of PET images of either E or the CMRO2 on a pixel-by-pixel basis is computationally burdensome.
  • (18) Several important advances have made the process more practical and acceptable: computer programs that eliminate the need for burdensome calculations, improved techniques for designing analytic models, the ability to carry out sensitivity analyses over several dimensions simultaneously, and the elaboration of clinically relevant measures of utility.
  • (19) In real dollar terms, Medtronic's taxes did not appear burdensome.
  • (20) Fifty % of the primary care-givers experienced their situation as not so burdensome, 25% as rather and also 25% as very burdensome.

Onerous


Definition:

  • (a.) Burdensome; oppressive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
  • (2) Picking positives from a third successive league loss, the first time Chelsea have endured that since Gianluca Vialli’s stewardship, must have felt onerous even if Willian was excellent once again and Eden Hazard – for all that he has gone 1,375 minutes without a Premier League goal – arguably produced his best performance of the season.
  • (3) The retailer has also taken a £70m hit from onerous leases, and distribution centre closures in Harlow and Weybridge cost £30m.
  • (4) Bank credit is available, but only at a price, and on conditions businesses consider too onerous.
  • (5) With the growing AIDS problem, the serious TB burden in sub-Saharan Africa may become even more onerous and may critically overload the stressed African health care systems.
  • (6) But that was a clear demotion, unlike Hague whose decision to stand down at the election paved the way for a less onerous cabinet post.
  • (7) The radiologic and histologic problems of differential diagnosis, and the subtle distinction between benign and malignant make decision an onerous task for surgeons, orthopedists, pathologists, oncologists and radiotherapists.
  • (8) The most onerous challenge for the Football Association in its search for a new England manager may no longer be whittling down a list of impressive coaches, but convincing the successful candidate that they will still have a career of note when it all falls apart.
  • (9) Conservative MP David Morris, the government’s ambassador for small businesses, warned that the self-employed were concerned the new system would be onerous and lead to overpayments in some cases.
  • (10) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.
  • (11) If the government lifted its gag orders on the companies, the co-operation would appear "a lot less onerous and problematic for civil liberties.
  • (12) Over-onerous rules, such as borrowers having to be experienced landlords or earning significant minimum incomes have eased a little, making buy-to-let an even more attractive investment."
  • (13) "Our ratios put a cap on the salaries staff can be paid because of onerous requirements on numbers.
  • (14) Issues with buying Five, which made losses of €41m last year, include onerous foreign programme deals such as a lifetime series commitment to contribute to the production of Home & Away and its TV sales operation increasingly suffering against larger rivals in the market.
  • (15) Trying to follow through a complaint in relation to a non-Queensland police officer, either interstate or internationally, would be an onerous task and unlikely to generate a reasonable outcome,” he said.
  • (16) Many financial firms will be exempt from the most onerous requirements of the Financial Services Authority's new code on bonuses, it emerged today – just as David Cameron stepped up his rhetoric against City pay.
  • (17) As lead singer, Michael's schedule was more onerous than that of his brothers.
  • (18) I don’t think six months is unduly onerous.” The trust’s public value test – the first time it has used such a procedure to look at the closure of a service rather than the launch of a new one – will look at how the proposals will impact on licence fee payers and look at value for money, reach, quality of service and whether it is an effective use of public funds.
  • (19) Yet dealing with AIDS in this traditional society is an onerous task.
  • (20) Worse, the debt is structured so that the compound interest rate effect of not paying it off early makes it even more onerous, an effect vastly more likely to hit students from disadvantaged homes.