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burden and secret
He explains to Buffy he was able to defeat two Slayers because he sensed and exploited their secret desires to be free of their burden.
God, in pity to mankind, lest his burden should be insupportable and his nature an intolerable load, hath reduced our state of misery to an abbreviature ; and the greater our misery is, the less while it is like to last ; the sorrows of a man's spirit being like ponderous weights, which by the greatness of their burden make a swifter motion, and descend into the grave to rest and ease our wearied limbs ; for then only we shall sleep quietly, when those fetters are knocked off, which not only bound our souls in prison, but also ate the flesh till the very bones opened the secret garments of their cartilages, discovering their nakedness and sorrow.
The conference was held in secret on 30 November at Whitehall and the divines discussed the real presence, with the Catholics taking on the burden of proof.
The burden of the secret was so heavy that the barber fell ill. A druid advised him to go to a crossroads and tell his secret to the first tree he came to, and he would be relieved of his burden and be well again.
Nazis ' bombing of the immediate environs of his lab, plus the burden of keeping such key findings secret from all others there, made Chadwick desolate: " it was inevitable ....

burden and was
The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.
The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.
These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.
The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.
He went for more aspirin later in the day, and passed the surly landlord on the way -- he was still alive and scowling as usual, as if tenants were a burden in his life.
There were no longer church lands available with which to conciliate the nobles, the burden of taxation was heavy, and Albert's rule became unpopular.
Of the burden of having to contribute to the maintenance of Cerigo and Aegina, both united administratively with the Morea since the peace, the peninsula not only paid all the expenses of administration, but furnished a substantial balance for the naval defence of Venice, in which it was directly interested.
Staff burden was reduced at the top and spread among commands more knowledgeable about their own situation.
It eased the burden of the workers, and determined that membership of the ruling class was to be based on wealth ( plutocracy ), rather than by birth ( aristocracy ).
In premodern China, the need for credit and for circulating a medium that was less of a burden than exchanging thousands of copper coins led to the introduction of paper money, commonly known today as banknotes.
He was, however, forced to increase their role as the powers of the princeps became more centralized and the burden larger.
The Chinese invention of the horse collar by the 5th century was also a great improvement from the breast harness, allowing the horse to haul greater weight without heavy burden on its skeletal structure.
In exchange, the szlachta's tax burden was reduced and they would no longer be required to pay for military expeditions expenses outside Poland.
The intention was that these facilities would provide extra revenue to support the football side of the business, but they were less successful than hoped and before the Abramovich takeover in 2003 the debt taken on to finance them was a major burden on the club.
His Basilikon Doron, a manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old son Henry Frederick king " acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from the god a burden of government, whereof he must be countable.
The conflicts with Spain and in Ireland dragged on, the tax burden grew heavier, and the economy was hit by poor harvests and the cost of war.
Later, opponents of women's entry into institutions of higher learning argued that education was too great a physical burden on women.
France's inefficient and antiquated financial system was unable to manage the national debt, something which was both partially caused and exacerbated by the burden of an inadequate system of taxation.
Additionally, the search retries of the Shareaza client, which was one of the initial G2 clients, could unnecessarily burden the gnutella network.
The financial burden within the peninsula was on the backs of the peasant class while the nobility enjoyed an increasingly lavish lifestyle.
This placed a huge financial burden on the Australian subsidiary, which was already operating at a loss at this time.

burden and down
However, the Court struck down the " choice of expenditure " rule, which required that parties could either make coordinated expenditures for all its candidates, or permit candidates to spend independently, but not both, which they agreed " placed an unconstitutional burden on the parties ' right to make unlimited independent expenditures.
Władysław turned the deal down with the agreement of both Polish and Silesian nobles, unwilling to burden himself with new military commitments in the west.
Upon seeing the Ring again, he suddenly tried to take it from Frodo ; he returned to his senses when a terrified Frodo backed away, and he broke down in tears, apologizing for bringing the burden of the Ring onto Frodo.
Christian is weighed down by a great burden, the knowledge of his sin, which he believed came from his reading " the book in his hand ", ( the Bible ).
The Division itself is broken down into " program clusters " that are " organized around critical, cross-cutting scientific topics that hold great promise for advancing knowledge and reducing the burden of neurological disease ".
By 1889 it had been made a county borough, but in the same year one of the largest employers, Hawks, Crawshay and Company, closed down and unemployment has since been a burden.
Additionally, the Midrash argues that Issachar's description in the Blessing of Jacob-Issachar is a strong ass lying down between the sheepfolds: and he saw that settled life was good, and the land was pleasant ; he put his shoulder to the burden, and became a slave under forced labour-is a reference to the religious scholarship of the tribe of Issachar, rather than simply to a more literal interpretation of Issachar's name.
The Talmud argues that Issachar's description in the Blessing of Jacob-Issachar is a strong ass lying down between the sheepfolds: and he saw that settled life was good, and the land was pleasant ; he put his shoulder to the burden, and became a slave under forced labour-is a reference to the religious scholarship of the tribe of Issachar, though scholars feel that it may more simply be a literal interpretation of Issachar's name.
During his term as mayor, Watson ’ s emphasis centered on ensuring that the City adopt sustainable fiscal management policies which would enable overall operating costs to go down while reducing budget deficits and the city ’ s debt burden.
The school was once a powerhouse in black college football, producing five undefeated seasons between 1947 and 1960, but like many smaller colleges, the high costs associated with operating a Division I football program and complying with Title IX became too much of a burden, and the team was shut down after the 1979 season.
The Supreme Court struck down spousal consent requirements for married women to obtain abortions, but found no " undue burden "— an alternative to strict scrutiny which tests the allowable limitations on rights protected under the Constitution — from the other statutory requirements.
These new drill instructors bear the burden of responsibility for breaking down a recruit's sense of self and selfishness, so that the more experienced drill instructors can focus the recruits on selflessness, obedience, and fraternity.
The added burden of this plus DHL withdrawing their sponsorship and Benson and Hedges toning down their sponsorship soon added up and the lack of funds made his team go from bad to worse in 2003.
In his report to the National Encampment of the GAR, Commander-in-Chief John P. Rea stated, " It will be but a short period until our ranks are so meager and the surviving Comrades so weighed down with the burden of years that our organization will have ceased to be an active force in the work of loyal love and charity which it has ordained.
The next shows the man on the same scale, weighed down under a burden of " Mental Image Pictures ", and the scale indicates a weight of " 180 ".
The completion of the line to Bath brought a further massive traffic increase, but the financial burden of the loans taken to build the Bath extension weighed the little company down even more, and it soon became clear that even day-to-day operating expenses could not be met.
He went on to say that he was " weighed down by the burden of expectation " and heard someone say he was the " worst player we've ever had at Barnet ".
In Islamic prophetology, a messenger may abrogate certain ritual and social laws handed down by his predecessors in order to lighten Man's burden, make lawful what had previously been unlawful, and therefore demonstrate God's mercy for His creation.
Businesses criticized the tax hikes as well as the idea of tax code changes in the middle of the fiscal year as an unreasonable burden, while independent economists mostly noted how new taxes would cut consumer spending and further slow down the economy.
Advocates of speed reading generally claim that subvocalization places extra burden on the cognitive resources, thus, slowing the reading down.
According to progressive scholars, American judges steeped in laissez-faire economic theory, who identified with the nation ’ s capitalist class and harbored contempt for any effort to redistribute wealth or otherwise meddle with the private marketplace, acted on their own economic and political biases to strike down legislation that threatened to burden corporations or disturb the existing economic hierarchy.
Even with the burden of finance lifted, there were another two years of alteration of formation and command before six oddly assorted ships moved down from Norfolk to Hampton Roads on August 9, 1838.
It's as if Jackson, aware that this was her premier effort under a new, $ 40 million record deal, felt weighed down by the burden of proving herself.
In the last two Tests, Johnston conceded more than 100 runs in three of the four innings with the increased burden in his colleagues ' absence ; the only previous occasion when he had conceded a century of runs in an innings was in the First Test against England in 1948 when Lindwall broke down mid-match.

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