(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.
Taskmaster
Definition:
(n.) One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite his gentle demeanour, the 52-year-old director can be a taskmaster on set, according to colleagues.
(2) Dimon, the charismatic leader of the bank, had enjoyed a reputation as a tough, strict taskmaster, the kind of CEO every bank should have.
(3) When asked if she drives the culture of the warehouse, Byers says: “I don’t run the warehouse, I run the retail.” She rejects suggestions that she is a hard taskmaster.
(4) Four months and two weeks had elapsed since the German chancellor Angela Merkel , ignoring the din of demonstrators and helicopters roaring overhead, had sought to convey, her eyes flashing this way and that, an essential fact: that she had come to Greece "not as a taskmaster but as a friend to listen and be informed".
(5) You can imagine Anderson as something of a taskmaster.
(6) Michael is a pretty hard taskmaster - they wouldn't survive if they weren't any good."
(7) For Felix Magath, that notoriously tough taskmaster, to grant his players two days off is a measure of the significance of this victory after Fulham pulled to within five points of Norwich City, whom they host next week, following Hugo Rodallega's winner four minutes from time.
(8) Felix Magath, the alleged hard taskmaster, failed to get his team playing anywhere near his demands.
(9) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.
(10) Medicine is a hard taskmaster but made worse by those around you who see you as a threat that rocks the hierarchy where everyone should know their place,” an anonymous hospital consultant says in response to the results of the Guardian survey.
(11) Having been handed power unexpectedly early, Kim may have felt conflicting emotions: one, the urge to be as good or better than his unyielding taskmaster dad; the other, a crippling fear of failure, of being inadequate to the task.
(12) The agency, as she describes it, is a hard taskmaster.
(13) But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR … our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.” It has been known for some time that Amazon is often a tough taskmaster.
(14) TMZ on Christian Bale's expletive-laden rant According to Citron, Levin was a hard taskmaster who would work all hours.
(15) That need for control made him a demanding taskmaster.
(16) Rushdie himself briefly resembled the Soviet taskmaster when he suggested that John Updike should "stay in his parochial neighbourhood and write about wife-swapping, because it's what he can do".
(17) Even though Hanks achieved his greatest career success appearing in dramas in the 90s, such as Apollo 13 and winning his Oscars for (in typical Oscars style) his two worst films, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump , as well as appearing in romcoms ( Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail ) written and directed by Nora Ephron ("She was a taskmaster, but gentle – I wish I was making a movie with Nora tomorrow"), I personally will always have a soft spot for his 80s comedic performances.
(18) And whatever the supposed egalitarianism of the recording process, you feel that White must have been a hard taskmaster to the other three members of the Dead Weather, demanding they come up with ideas and push songs into new directions in the same way he demands of himself.
(19) This is the German’s default mode during games: a waving, berating, demanding taskmaster.
(20) She’s not a hard taskmaster and I think he seems to like that.” Mauresmo has worked hard on Murray’s self-belief, and was instrumental in his decision to play a punishing schedule of tournaments during the autumn to haul his world ranking, which had sunk following back surgery a little over a year ago, back into the top 10 (“I wanted him to feel what it was like to win tournaments again,” she said).