How To Use Overburdened In A Sentence

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.
If that were the case, then wouldn't the girls athletics program be overburdened with athletic hopefuls dreaming of state championships?

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Health services have been overburdened and are unable to care for many older people.
The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Such bad bureaucracy weighs heavily on already overburdened parents.
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.
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.
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 ship overburdened with cargoes should not be allowed to set sail.
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 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.
Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
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
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.
Second, the solution did not tax an already overburdened division transportation resource.
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.
Neither are exactly overburdened with debt. Times, Sunday Times
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
Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
Like a detox programme for the overburdened modern mind. Times, Sunday Times
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
Doctors are already in critically short supply and overburdened nurses often supply the only health care available.
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
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.
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
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.
This is an indication of how overburdened our courts are.
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.
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
It is little wonder then that officials have long pushed for mergers to clean up the overburdened system.
Overburdened support personnel rushed from one temporary work assignment to another, their ranks dangerously depleted by a recent company-wide restructuring.
The state police are too overburdened with other matters to have time for an old woman's haverings. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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
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.
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.
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
At a time when federal courts are already overburdened, it will make case backlogs even longer.
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
Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin.
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?
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
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.
Monetary policy has been overburdened and we need a better balance between monetary policy and fiscal policy. Times, Sunday Times
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.

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