How To Use Overburden In A Sentence

The results show that vertical stress is equal to overburden stress at shallow level. Maximum principal stress is sub horizontal stress in the NE direction.
Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
Inmates feel isolated and are already overburdened by the tension of courts and hearings.
This feeling is very strong in many apartment houses where small rooms are overburdened by this kind of wainscot, and to make matters worse, the top is used as a plate-rail. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
While the idea of people telling their stories is attractive in theory, in practice the courts are overburdened as it is.

The banks are looking into how many companies' payments they can handle without overburdening their own systems, the person said. Tech Crash Hits Japan Bank
He said Alexkor recently "armoured" a particular slimes dam with coarse overburden to stop a windblown "plume" of fine material that was threatening the proclaimed Ramsar wetland site at the mouth of the Orange River. ANC Daily News Briefing
If that were the case, then wouldn't the girls athletics program be overburdened with athletic hopefuls dreaming of state championships?
Health services have been overburdened and are unable to care for many older people.
The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.
Uplift of this magnitude could have occurred during Hercynian times with the stripping of considerable amounts of Carboniferous overburden.
Social work staff say they are overburdened with casework and worried about not being able to give heroin addicts in the drug court enough support.
Using outdated words such as "altruists" to represent the forces of evil who would overburden the poor, beleaguered American business community, Rand The Rule of Reason
Both tectonic stress and gravitational loading by overburden can produce pressure dissolution.
I doubt that they believed in the equitability of fate - especially when their only son turned out to be no more than another burden in their already overburdened lives.
While many of these individuals are able lawyers, they are often overburdened with heavy caseloads and lack the financial and personnel resources necessary to build a strong defense.
He said the measures would place further pressure on the already overburdened public hospital system.
The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.
Already overburdened staff have to focus more heavily on information assurance versus asset protection.
I'M astounded that councils stand to lose hundreds of millions but we are warned losses may be recovered from already overburdened council taxpayers. The Sun
It is also overburdened with debt. Times, Sunday Times
When we are all overburdened with worries in our daily life, a real entertainer is a welcome relief.
Friends have moved away, got married and so on and she feels overburdened at work at times and says she thinks about handing in her notice. Times, Sunday Times
The men favoured dark suits and enormous cigars while their wives were overburdened with makeup and jewellery. YELLOW BIRD
Probation officers that I have dealt with are overburdened, overworked and burned out.
The US welfare state is overburdened, now the baby boom generation is retiring.
Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan said some schools, like Hyde Park, received too many new kids, 'overburdening' them. Beachwood Reporter
After more than six hours of perilous switchbacks and countless near-misses with overburdened Indian Tata trucks we've arrived at the trekking gateway of Pokhara, a thriving and laidback city on the shores of Phewa Lake.
So say a pair of psychologists trying to prove the feminist theory that the experience of being sexually "objectified" overburdens the female brain. A Pretty Dumb Hypothesis About Good Looks
It is also overburdened with debt. Times, Sunday Times
It does stink to not be able to get the job one wants right off, but most young people, if they have not overburdened themselves with stupid debt (e.g. cars, credit cards), can ride out a hiring lag and manage to cobble together a successful career in its aftermath. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Graduates
For overburdened middle managers and front-line employees, the pressure to complete day-to-day tasks can make learning the ins and outs of a new system feel like nothing but a hassle.
Features shared by the Lake Hope structures and many physical diapiric models are local ductile extension and thinning of the overburden overlying anticlinal ridges of the active boundary.
Such bad bureaucracy weighs heavily on already overburdened parents.
In-situ methods make more economic sense for deposits covered by more than 75 m of overburden.
Underneath the muskeg is a layer of sand, rock and overburden, a clay-like material.
Doubtless the heaviest burden of our contemporaries is a consciousness of a divergence between our democratic theory on the one hand, that working people have a right to the intellectual resources of society, and the actual fact on the other hand, that thousands of them are so overburdened with toil that there is no leisure nor energy left for the cultivation of the mind. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
Several of the administrators were also new, and just as overburdened by the remaining seven teacher vacancies.
Ericsson, which says it routes two out of every five of the mobile calls made through its systems, expects huge growth in the market for such software and services as more and more mobile devices connect to the Internet, overburdening networks. Ericsson Says It Will Buy Telcordia for $1.15 Billion
Physicians are overburdened by paperwork and government regulations.
These courts are already overburdened with cases and the influx of new lawsuits will result in cases taking many years to reach trial.
These differences could be related to variation in degree of lithification of the overburden, causing it to collapse vertically rather than with more gentle downsagging.
The overburden can be divided into three packages based on the geometry of the seismic reflections.
All told, I counted about 200 catalogs that my overburdened mail carrier had to tote and deliver during the Christmas season.
Already, a significant amount of coal transport has shifted from China's overburdened rail lines to its crowded roads, with coal-laden trucks blamed for snarling roads, as with a two-week-long traffic jam that clogged the national highway between Beijing and Zhangjiakou this summer. NYT > Home Page
The current planning application provides for the Moira site to be restored by filling with overburden from mineral operations at Albion.
All topsoil and vegetative overburden shall be removed and separately stored along the north eastern boundary of the site to the satisfaction of the Local Planning Authority.
The ship overburdened with cargoes should not be allowed to set sail.
The overburden at some points compressed twelve-inch overhead crosspieces, or caps, to two-inch thicknesses in a year.
Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
The latter had little choice but to give responsibility for labor relations to already overburdened personnel officers, budget officers, or executive assistants. Human Resource Management in Government
The disease has led to a huge orphan crisis, creating an overburden on an already stressed medical system.
The courts are not overburdened with applications in this field.
Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
Let's just hope they are good years, that society is not overburdened by the influx (or lack of outflux) of older people, and that someone figures out a way to pay for the extra years of health care.
It is proposed that evaporite dissolution led to the collapse of the weakly lithified overburden, and this deformed with a series of concentric extensional faults.
Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
Equipment was small and most miners removed all overburden by washing it down the creeks.
The country is overburdened with gold braid and badges of office. Times, Sunday Times
Like a detox programme for the overburdened modern mind. Times, Sunday Times
overburdened social workers
This colt came out on top in gritty style in a hot maiden race at Haydock last time and does not look overburdened on his handicap debut.
In the first act of Walkyrie -- which is not overburdened with the atmosphere of morality -- even the black-hearted Hunding says to his blood-enemy, The Case of Edith Cavell A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants
The asymmetry of folds at shallower levels in the overburden sequence suggest that the original anticlinal ridges at the base of the overburden sequence were cuspate.
Overburdened support personnel rushed from one temporary work assignment to another, their ranks dangerously depleted by a recent company-wide restructuring.
As a parent I sympathise with overburdened teachers who find fun and spontaneity squeezed out by a regime of constant testing. Times, Sunday Times
All of 11 years old, Nikosi comes across by turn as wise, winsome, overburdened, and sometimes desolate.
Hand-trenching tied at least some of these float samples into un-deformed quartz veins within the weathered bedrock schist, which is covered in the area by 0.5 to 12.55 m of overburden. NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
Second, the solution did not tax an already overburdened division transportation resource.
It is quite evident that impounding the dam while it is under construction will cause the symmetrical variation of the pore pressures within the core due to overburden pressure of the fillings changes to unsymmetrical shape.
Many delegations saw the steering groups as an extra layer in an already overburdened hierarchy.
He did not appear to be overburdened with guilt.
Humane groups save millions of animals, she says, but they're "underfunded and overburdened" and can't be everyplace, so millions more animals in distress, in need of a hand, suffer and die. Pet Talk: Join the Great Animal Rescue Chase
The overburdened, under-financed hospital was itself an unnerving environment for the meeting.
They also say they will avoid local services being overburdened by bussing the youngsters into Hull.
For a hydro-fracture to form and propagate, fluid pressure must exceed horizontal stress plus the tensile strength of the overburden.
Neither are exactly overburdened with debt. Times, Sunday Times
Another key component to a heavy-equipment fleet is the machine that gets overburden off the site.
Their post-release "aftercare" is not handled by parole officers trained in dealing with youth offenders, but by already overburdened officers from the adult correctional system. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
Some governments are worried about overburdening banks with new taxes, while others say it would be unfair to punish banks that have little exposure to Greece. Proposals Emerge to Curb Greek Debt Load
Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
Like a detox programme for the overburdened modern mind. Times, Sunday Times
The economic cost of these factors could be reflected by an overburden of social medical response that could eventually deny health services for the masses, in many nations.
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For example, remedies were sought for the by now manifestly apparent shortcomings of an overburdened legal system. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
Calculations suggest that 1,000 tons of overburden was removed to create a single shaft, which yielded approximately 8 tons of nodular flint.
Doctors are already in critically short supply and overburdened nurses often supply the only health care available.
But by siting these kinds of facilities in areas with specific types of demographics, they're really overburdening people who are least able to come up with the resources to fight them. Calif. groups sue EPA over civil rights complaint
For students, exam pressure makes them overburdened and overwhelmed.
And "we the people" -- overtaxed, over-policed, overburdened by big government, underrepresented by those who should speak for us and blissfully ignorant of the prison walls closing in on us -- will continue to trudge along a path of misery. John W. Whitehead: The 2010 Elections: Full of Sound and Fury, and Signifying Nothing
City critics say the chain is overburdened with debt, has failed to spend enough on its stores and regular discounting has damaged the brand. Times, Sunday Times
Patterns of this type can be readily explained by accretionary tectonism, whereby a packet of sediment accreted at the toe of the prism is underthrust and buried beneath an overburden of older strata.
Sohu will strengthen investment in content respect, enlarge Sohu to accept numerous overburden scale.
I belabor the obvious only because Stoker has flagged in passing, though under unusual thematic pressure, the mismatch between phonemes and morphemes overburden by its preoccupation with linguistic transcription — somatic, mechanical, telegraphic, phonographic, and so on. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Unfortunately, he's saddled with a mom who shifts him with her from pillar to post; and eventually she dumps him on a farming family that is already overburdened.
As the nation's overburdened and underfunded emergency rooms are pushed to the brink, our medical safety net is starting to unravel.
Social work staff say they are overburdened with casework and worried about not being able to give heroin addicts in the drug court enough support.
Overpressured prodelta shales may act as a decoupling zone between the structural basement and deltaic overburden.
According to his account, he was overburdened and overwhelmed by the tasks imposed on him, many of which he regarded as pointless.
Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
Lawrence Kolb, a prominent psychiatrist affiliated with the U.S. Public Health Service, noted in 1941 that mental hospitals “were increasingly overburdened by aged persons for whom nothing can be done” and that it was “economically unwise and therapeutically unsound to take care of all dementing old people in hospitals.” The Mad Among Us
The country is overburdened with gold braid and badges of office. Times, Sunday Times
Continued compaction by overburden then converts lignite into bituminous coal and finally, anthracite coal.
True, teachers in the public school system are often overburdened, but many still do a great teaching job.
The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.
The precise form of the anticlinal folds at the base of the overburden layer is uncertain because of both limited seismic resolution and complexities due to the near convergence of conjugate-fault pairs.
All the software and circuitry that makes modern Porsches safer and more accessible—traction and stability control, torque-vectoring, brake-force distribution, adaptive suspension and shift-by-wire double-clutch gearboxes—are regarded by many as dulling overburden between the driver and the pleasure of machine mastery. The Porsche 911's Last Hurrah...For Now
This is an indication of how overburdened our courts are.
The in situ process may not require mine workings or large surface plant facilities to crush and retort the shale, and it avoids the necessity of removing overburden and waste shale to dumps with its consequent environmental problems.
Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
Neither are exactly overburdened with debt. Times, Sunday Times
It handles the material so well that the student is not overburdened.
This inconsonance brings about much disarrangement, such as pollution, heat island, overburden of resource and waste, etc.
These days, being an MP is little more than a smart career move for any numptie with a 2:1 in PPE and who is not overburdened with beliefs, convictions, morality or a sense of shame. MPs Should Bin Extra "Communications" Allowance
It was as if a window had opened on a stifling room overburdened with heavy furniture to let in a fresh breeze. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Lancelot understandeth that the knight is not overburdened of courtesy, and he seeth the table garnished of good meat, and bethinketh him he will not do well to lose such ease, for misease enough had they the night before. The High History of the Holy Graal
These indicate that the thermal alteration is due to thrust loading and not to pre-thrust sedimentary overburden.
It is little wonder then that officials have long pushed for mergers to clean up the overburdened system.
For both the sill and the sedimentary overburden, reduction in thickness since intrusion may have been around 10%, with comparable increases in present-day densities.
Overburdened support personnel rushed from one temporary work assignment to another, their ranks dangerously depleted by a recent company-wide restructuring.
Most of the tailings are the excavated overburden rock and rejected sand; both can be stockpiled and used as backfill with little threat to the environment (Stosur and others, 1998). Chapter 9
The state police are too overburdened with other matters to have time for an old woman's haverings. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Contracts have been let to South Australian firms for site preparation, removal of overburden and the installation of a major mining and heavy mineral separation plant.
There were problems associated with the disposal of tons of overburden and tailings stored on the banks of the Kawerong or washed into the Jaba River, changing its flow and poisoning its waters.
In the former instance, Mr. Bartlett used the piano as a platform for his fragile melodies, never once overburdening the songs. New Feathers for His Cap
One bucket-wheel excavator removes the relatively thin overburden and exposes the coal seam.
The workings were confined to several, steep-sided gorges from which the miners extracted fibre with some difficulty, mostly either by blast-removing overburden to expose benches or by underground mining.
The pain of my swollen arm kept me awake until the second dawn: to the relief of my overburdened mind, for its body became clamant enough to interrupt my self-questioning when the fire of some such surface injury swept the sluggish nerves. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Local miners have been digging and collecting here for several years, moving many tons of overburden soil and waste rock in the process.
Friends have moved away, got married and so on and she feels overburdened at work at times and says she thinks about handing in her notice. Times, Sunday Times
Police are poorly paid, investigators and prosecutors are too few and overburdened, and there are not enough courts, judges, or jails.
The US welfare state is overburdened, now the baby boom generation is retiring.
It occurred to Greene that this channel resembled the area several hundred yards downstream where they had been digging - an area now filled with rock and buried under 4 feet of overburden.
For example, remedies were sought for the by now manifestly apparent shortcomings of an overburdened legal system. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
These included what it described as inadequate funding for security structures and an overburdened criminal justice system. ANC Daily News Briefing
Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
Underneath the muskeg is a layer of sand, rock and overburden, a clay-like material.
Our aim is to help and make sure he can enjoy as much as the gifts we are willing to provide," Green said, "without overburdening him with taxes or more debt. Fan Who Returned Ball Is Reaping Rewards
I'M astounded that councils stand to lose hundreds of millions but we are warned losses may be recovered from already overburdened council taxpayers. The Sun
Localized high-magnitude overpressures are also observed within pressure compartments in the deltaic overburden in the inner shelf.
At a time when federal courts are already overburdened, it will make case backlogs even longer.
Conversely, in an extensional basin, older strata would be expected to develop higher grades beneath an overburden of younger rocks.
The latter had little choice but to give responsibility for labor relations to already overburdened personnel officers, budget officers, or executive assistants. Human Resource Management in Government
We might object that embracing things, surrounding ourselves with things, loving things is the very root of our environmental problems, the overburdening of our planet. Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin.
The overburden comprises sands and shales with thin coal interbeds, which passes upwards into sandstones and shales without coals.
The high amount of nonabsorbed food can overburden the colon and cause loose poop. You: On a Diet
Or perhaps it's that people are so overburdened and overtaxed by long commutes, long work hours, family demands, and worries over lack of healthcare that we don't have time to see the bigger picture?
Overburden soils include glacial and postglacial deposits and recent fill.
They rarely enjoy their home and are often naggy towards their husbands because they are overburdened with masculine duties and so try to enlist help from their husbands for their feminine duties .... oh how wretched is that role blurring. Don't Give Up
City critics say the chain is overburdened with debt, has failed to spend enough on its stores and regular discounting has damaged the brand. Times, Sunday Times
It is proposed that evaporite dissolution led to the collapse of the weakly lithified overburden, and this deformed with a series of concentric extensional faults.
Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
Analyzing and grading writing can be difficult for teachers who are already overburdened with their various education and non-education assignments.
Underneath the muskeg is a layer of sand, rock and overburden, a clay-like material.
Monetary policy has been overburdened and we need a better balance between monetary policy and fiscal policy. Times, Sunday Times
The first step in the mining is removing the overburden - the topsoil, muskeg, sand, clay and gravel - that covers the deposits.
Unfortunately, I have never procured an overburdened wage package, so monetary wisecracks have not been part of my repertoire.
Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
Among his many inventions was a machine gun so overburdened with gadgets that it was unsuitable for any purpose other than mechanical curiosity.
Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
Making sure your teachers are not overburdened can help you get the education you deserve.
He did not appear to be overburdened with guilt.
Resist the temptation to overburden your notes with too much information. 4.
Freeport has blamed the collapse of the overburden pile on heavy rainfall, which reached on average of 40 millimeters last week.
We've made foolish promises, and it wouldn't be right to overburden those future younger workers by keeping them.

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