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We must take full advantage of our organized security structures to ensure that the global security
burden
is shared in a fair and proportionate manner.
The cost to the UK for its contribution to the NATO operation in Afghanistan, for example, totals £3.1 billion – a heavy
burden
on British taxpayers.
Doing so would provide some reimbursement to countries that currently carry an unduly large part of the
burden.
More important, the economic
burden
of TB has been put as high as $20 billion annually – and even higher if the losses in human capital are included.
India, the government’s critics argue, has taken upon itself the enormous
burden
of talking peace with a government that, when it comes to addressing the real threats emanating from its territory and institutions, has proved to be ineffective at best and duplicitous at worst.
His nobility consisted in never forgetting the lesson of the Rebbe of Vizhnitz, even after he had donned the robe of the man of letters, that he bore the
burden
of those, adorned in caftan and fur hat, who had wanted to be as elegant as the Polish nobles who led the pogroms against them.
The fact that the existence of exceptional circumstances can now be invoked to distribute the
burden
of any needed adjustments over more than one year is helpful.
Similarly, a debt left unpaid too long by a government is a
burden
on future generations: I may enjoy the benefits of government extravagance, but my children will have to foot the bill.
Third, the national debt is not a net
burden
on future generations.
But trying to reduce it now will be a net
burden
on future generations: income will be lowered immediately, profits will fall, pension funds will be diminished, investment projects will be canceled or postponed, and houses, hospitals, and schools will not be built.
At the political level, too, the EU is increasingly shouldering its share of the
burden.
While automation may protect China from severe labor shortages, population aging will increase the economic
burden
of social security.
The greatest harm comes from the cumulative
burden
of multiple risk factors, including neglect, abuse, parental substance abuse or mental illness, and exposure to violence.
Still others would do well to reduce the tax burden, in particular for low- and middle-wage earners.
A growing number of people, inside and outside of the country, are starting to blame the revolution itself for derailing an economy that was growing, reducing its external-debt burden, and maintaining a comfortable cushion of international reserves.
Inadequate growth and higher inflation impose a particularly severe
burden
on Egypt’s most vulnerable.
For starters, there was Kennedy’s vow to defend freedom for its friends and from its enemies: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Such a speech will encourage no one to “bear any burden” for the sake of any universal principle or challenge, be it human rights or global warming.
The dilemma is that playing it safe--by treating every flu-like illness with the precautions appropriate for SARS--would present an enormous logistical, operational and financial
burden
to health care systems.
Consider “the long war,” a bold concept embraced a few years ago to describe the continuing struggle against terrorism, the grudging progress that could realistically be achieved, and the enormous financial
burden
that it would impose for years to come.
The ongoing sovereignty disputes in the South and East China Seas – involving China, Taiwan, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia – are particularly poisonous, because they also carry a heavy
burden
of historical grievance.
In the ensuing decades, America has apparently come to regard its longstanding alliances as more of a
burden
than an asset.
Efforts to control TB and NCDs – which, like HIV/AIDS, place a heavy
burden
on low- and middle-income countries – can leverage the lessons learned from the response to HIV.
Such novel models of care also relieve the
burden
of large numbers of patients on health facilities and health workers.
One reason the US recovery is only partial is fiscal drag, a lingering effect of the post-2008 downturn, which shifted some leverage to the public sector, resulting in a growing debt
burden
that has been addressed – controversially so – by immediate austerity.
Particularly egregious from the point of view of “Davos” was the recent refusal by Congress to approve the reform and refunding of the International Monetary Fund, even though a plan that added no significant
burden
to the American taxpayer had been agreed years earlier by the G-20 under Obama’s leadership.
The region’s performance during the global financial crisis has not hidden fundamental problems: the heavy
burden
of an unrealized agenda of social inclusion and a combination of inequality and injustice that could turn lethal in the near future.
They are the working rich, and dislike the growing
burden
of regulations and the prospect of higher taxes.
The United States needs to restore the possibility of achieving the American Dream for its middle class, even while it reaffirms the historically light regulation and relatively low tax
burden
that have allowed enterprise to flourish.
A formula for
burden
sharing would be needed that gradually increases domestic financing.
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