At the end of six years, the local governments will have to assume the entire burden.

But girls assume certain emotional burdens even if they are not asked.

President Bush quickly promised $20 billion, and everyone expected the federal government to assume the burden of additional security.

And it isn't clear that he can - or wants to - assume the burden.

But I do not wish to be first through the gate, to assume the burden of individual life.

You are the one who has assumed the burden, for the good of the society.

But it's not just the parents who should assume the burden of monitoring a child's Internet activities.

The State in return assumed the burden of carrying out the penalty.

The case no one has really made is why citizens should be punished and assume the burden for those decisions.

Yet for two decades policy makers have asked schools to assume the largest burden of social reform.