Sentences with phrase «known as the burden»

If you are considering filing a personal injury lawsuit, you should be familiar with a legal concept known as the burden of proof.

Texas has made the recovery of punitive damages more difficult by changing what is known as the burden of proof.

Not exact matches

As everyone knows by now, Canadian households are carrying record debt burdens.

Road warriors and companies that don't want to take on the burden of buying videoconferencing equipment themselves can rent videoconferencing rooms by the hour at FedEx Office, formerly known as FedEx Kinko's.

As a single mother and head of the household, my mother knew the burden of responsibility she shouldered.

Accounts receivable financing, also known as factoring, offers a company or practice a rapid cash infusion without the burden of an additional monthly debt payment.

The signature metaphors of feminism say everything we need to know about how happy liberation has been making these women: the suburban home as concentration camp, men as rapists, children as intolerable burdens, fetuses as parasites, and so on.

One of the desert fathers tells us, «To my mind there is no labour so great as prayer to God: for when one wishes to pray to God, the hostile demons make haste to interrupt the prayer, knowing that their sole hindrance is in this, a prayer poured out to God... Prayer is the burden of a mighty conflict to one's last breath.»

I don't think you can be a pro-life feminist and argue that women need to be condescended to and «informed of what they're doing» as though they don't already know (cf. laws that institute mandatory waiting periods so they can «think it over,» which puts an untenable burden on those who have to travel for abortion procedures and do not have the money to do so).

As the king of Israel he can no longer bear the burden of such abominations.

Various other tests must be met, as travelers by air since September 11 know all too well, and the burden lies upon those would - be travelers to do what is necessary to pass them.

I know, let's just close the schools down — all together — and move quicker to third world status; because, 1) It's a burden on the economy as we, clearly, don't have the money to continue educating future generations; and 2) It doesn't appear they're learning anything anyway, except how to harass little children and make their lives as miserable as possible for writing on their desks.

He knew Christian existence, therefore, as joy rather than as burden.

«We are looking to Christians as people of hope, to pray and raise awareness during Prisons Week so that those who feel burdened, fearful and worn down will know the positive impact of prayer on their lives.

Bless the merciful as they carry our own burdens with us, and we can not know how low they are bowed with the grief of the whole world groaning for justice and peace.

«Sorrows that are borne with the Spirit of God are no longer the burdens they might have been, as Hannah's story shows us»

Be very mindful how you pin a name on your brother sister; remember the church is there the burden and those who have sinned yet we become so eager to judge; the word has already judged him, God at this very moment is dealing with him in ways that no man can as we judge him, we have judged ourself, we can easily forgive when his sin is like ours, but when it is not; they killed CHRIST CAUSE HE SAID HE COULD RISE THE TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS; to the people of that day and time it was a lie; as we forgive him we are forgive ourselves for believing in man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way of making something good out of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive all;

Consequently as regards the fundamental contention we are examining, it is not appropriate, in view of the historical associations that burden the word «material» to subsume under the term «matter» the subjectivity which is also met with within the primordial unity we have described, because to do so would at least obscure the equally fundamental difference encountered in that unity between the knowing subject and the object which is merely met with.

Your story is a reminder that miracles happen even in the darkest situations & we all have the opportunity (not obligation — its a gift, not a burden) to help each other in this very tough love lesson, known as life.

I know that life is short and precious and try to live as happily as I can without the burden of worrying about the wrath of some imaginary judge.

We knew we wanted his middle name to be Joseph (it was my dad's middle name, and it's mine as well), but we wanted his name to be his own, something that was his and his alone instead of burdening him with the name «Sonny, Jr.» We tend to call him «Kai» as a nickname, but «Malakai Joseph» has a great ring to it when you say it in «angry parent» voice.

The coincidence of a series of chains of physical events that are necessary for life as we know it seems to some to put too great a burden on chance.

Kenneth agree with you totally its not just adams and abrahams problem its us guys we give in to our wives to keep the peace we should learn that the best way is always Gods way not our way or mans way.That to me is the message behind the story.The issue is rather than taking on the burden of his wife Abraham should have taken it back to the Lord its in our weakness he strengthens us.In the end he did what any married man would have done in order to please his wife.We are no different we put our wives or children church work before the Lord just as he did and loo at the consequences that came from that decision the arab nations became a thporn in there side.In my mind we need to put him first always.When we please the Lord he will bless us and our relationships when we do it our way there will be consequences.brentnz

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

@Chad «I see that argument a lot from people that want to be known as atheists, but do nt want the burden of proof that accompanies the traditional definition of the word.

These circumstances, plus the fact that the volatile Snyder (or The Cookie Monster, as the majority Nabisco stockholder is sometimes known) could even imply that McAdoo, a man who works as hard in practice as in games, who plays more minutes and shoulders a bigger burden than anybody in the NBA, was a loafer, made the suspension a landmark in the history of dubious decisions.

My take is, no matter how well we complain about this or that, Wenger will always do what he think is right for the club and the team generally, if he's not buying a striker that's ok in as much the midfielders can assist with their own share of goals to ease the burden off the strikers, but depending solely on Giroud will be suicidal.

«Homer has lifted my burden in that I know the game plan will be done with the same attention to detail as if I did it myself.

Where do we as supporters turn round and say «You know what, the impossible has been asked from you and you have failed, why haven't the board got people in to share the burden?»

we can't even get rid of players that have barely mannered to us for several years... which is incredibly annoying considering that our beloved owner would never risk his own financial resources whether he brought in some new blood or offloaded several failed Wenger projects for less than market value... he would simply make a little less and the burden would fall squarely on other sources of income, primarily us... I don't know about you but I would gladly use all the money they have been stockpiling to rid ourselves of those that don't meet acceptable standards and to replace them with a few higher priced gems... I know, I know, Wenger and his minions have been scouring the globe for years now to find anyone that was as good as our current lot to no avail, but I've just got to believe there must be two or three guys somewhere out there that can play this crazy game

Chelsea are known to be looking for another striker as Blues boss Antonio Conte wants to ease the burden on Alvaro Morata.

we got Arshaz, Nasri, Cesc and Rosicky who pretty much play the way he does we really do nt need him to burden our treatmentroom either i have been really hoping this Melo thing was jus a cover up for both Fiorentina and ourselves, i mean Melo is overrated in my opinion and i think we were jus usinim so we can get Inler under the radar bacuse we all know once it gets out tha we have mad a bid al of sudden Liverpool and even ManU re will want a piece not to mention Citeh who have De Jong, Kompany and Barry and will still try something, anyway i really hope that the case because if not it would be poor plannin by Wenger coz Melo as come out on numerous occassions stating he was happy to stay in Italy so do nt see how we would have thought we could change his mind.

Spouses have to know where to draw a boundary line, as long as they realize that that line is constantly going to have to be redrawn, says David A. Karp, a sociology professor at Boston College and author of The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness.

I no longer think of bedtime as a burden or as something that cuts into my time to myself each evening, and it's made a huge change for all three of us.

Would Jeremy Hunt have succeeded in imposing such swingeing cuts upon the NHS if he hadn't depicted various people with varying levels of need — you know, people dying of cancer, that sort of thing - as «burdens»?

Hospital admissions fell but this was arguably only because users, burdened by the stigma of being branded criminals and the fear of prosecution, no longer felt as able to seek help when they needed it.

There have been studies that show a statistically significant relationship, but causality as you know is a much higher burden to prove.

She also previously served as the deputy chief of the Sex Crimes Unit, so she arguably knows a thing or two about the burden of proof in such cases.

In releasing his 2015 tax payments, Faso — who built a reputation in the state Assembly as a fiscal hawk because he cut spending and balanced budgets — wants residents to know that he understands the burden of property taxes and is committed to reform.

Klein says he hopes they pass bills to reform New York City's «stop and frisk» law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and the immigration bill known as the Dream Act.

Will the people who got us into this economic mess, the people behind the massive foreclosures — and we know who they are — will they be carry the burden as much of the poor and middle class New Yorkers?»

It is very important for you to know that as of this moment, the Members of the New York State Assembly have been indifferent and have not even taken a vote, joining the Senate, to stop the City of New York from imposing this extra burden on our most vulnerable and needy people.

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, running mate to the opposition New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Flagbearer, has promised that an NPP government would lessen and abolish the tax burden on head porters, otherwise known as «Kayayei», among others.

Business leaders say the labor regulation, known as the Scaffold Law, places an unfair burden on employers.

Anyone who has worked in the defence engineering industry will know that financial risks start - out as innocuous looking technical risks on the Defence Contractor's premises, where selected ones are deliberately concealed by the Contractor during the design and development phase, then skilfully transferred to MoD Abbey Wood, Bristol where they morph into «show stopping» risks and come to the fore immediately after the main investment decision has been taken (as they have done so spectacularly on the Type 45 destroyers with total power blackouts), ultimately ending up as an additional cost burden on the Front Line Commands, who have recently been given responsibility for the defence equipment budget — resulting in sleepless nights for many other people too!

Klein says he hopes the new coalition will ultimately be judged on policy, by passing bills to reform New York City's Stop and Frisk law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and by passing a bill known as the Dream Act.

The passage of the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act and spearheaded by the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, was the most significant step yet toward reducing the burden of a two - decade - old policing policy that treats public disorder as harbingers of more dangerous offenses, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of outstanding criminal court warrants for minor infractions.

Lawmakers also moved to reduce the burden on students from tests aligned with the more rigorous set of curricular standards known as the Common Core.

In his call for practice change, Bekelman cites research showing the shorter radiation treatment — known as moderate hypofractionation — is just as effective at treating cancer, while costing less and easing the burden on patients.

In order to speed the process and reduce the financial burden on small companies that dominate small tech start - ups, U.S. and Canadian researchers suggest that the United States should prioritize which materials should undergo the most rigorous testing based on what is already known about their toxicity as well as the potential human exposure.