6 sentences with 'burden'
Example sentences and phrases with the word burden and other words derived from it.
• « There, the predominantly Christian subjects of the Ottomans enjoyed official religious toleration, but chafed at the tax burden and, increasingly in the late 18th century, resented the "foreign" rule of the Turks. »
• « Not only did France lose much of its empire in Canada, the Caribbean and India to the British, but the state also accumulated a huge debt burden that consumed 60 per cent of tax revenues each year in interest payments. »
• « That said, monarchs tended to see "enlightened reforms" in terms of making their governments more efficient. They certainly did not relinquish their royal power, although some at least eased the burden on serfs working on royal lands. »
• « The period of Mongol rule is still known as the "Mongol yoke" in Russian history, meaning a period when the Russian people were used as beasts of burden and sources of wealth by their Mongol overlords, like animals harnessed to ploughs. »
• « One of the reasons the Romans were so effective in assimilating conquered peoples into Roman society was that they built a great deal of infrastructure; being conquered by Rome seemed less of a burden when an aqueduct, public baths and a street system appeared within a generation of Roman conquest (the relative cultural and religious tolerance of Roman culture was also key). »
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