Wearing their national colours, the Polish champion powerlifters and bench - pressers struggle and strain to elevate these hefty bronze and brick monuments, metaphorically attempting to lift the very burden of history on to their shoulders. (artlyst.com)
In the last analysis, we do not know why the innocent suffer; what we do know is that this is part of the burden of our history, especially in the current century. (religion-online.org)
Here Geyer's reading is truer to the facts than Johnson's, as he takes account of what he calls «the burdens of history.» (religion-online.org)