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• v  put a saddle on
• v  load or burden; encumber
  he saddled me with that heavy responsibility
• v  impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
• a  having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal
  saddled and spurred and ready to ride
• s  subject to an imposed burden
  left me saddled with the bill
  found himself saddled with more responsibility than power

• So when a company claims to offer distressed homeowners both relief from their mortgages and revenge against the bankers who saddled them with too much debt ("Give the lenders back .
• What he is validates what he does: he has so long been saddled (not unwillingly) with the task of being the vitality-image or phallus of the West that every sketch, painting or .
• Though it's saddled with a faded doily of a title, Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an impressionable young man, Charles .

• saddle
• charge
• burden

• unsaddle
• unsaddled

News & Articles

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• Researchers revisit California's political redistricting
  A new report concludes California's political redistricting largely succeeded two years ago, but was saddled with problems that could have been avoided.
  June 13, 2013 - News10 Sacramento
• Relay For Life raises $38,000 in Fulton event
  By CHRIS MENEES Staff Reporter Volunteers saddled up Friday night in Fulton as they rounded up funds to benefit the American Cancer Society. When the night ended, they had raised $38,000 toward this year’s $50,000 goal for the Relay For Life of Fulton, South Fulton and Hickman, Ky.
  June 12, 2013 - Union City Messenger

Quotes

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• President Bush in San Jose Mercury News
  Bush spoke vaguely about investment banks that "found themselves saddled with" toxic assets and banks that "found themselves" with questionable balance sheets.
• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  He's had a front-row seat to the last eight years of disastrous policies that have widened the income gap and saddled our children with debt,Obama said. "And now he's promising four more years of the very same thing."
• Alex McLeish in SkySports
  As the liberal governor of the state of Massachusetts, he raised taxes by $730 million. The state of Massachusetts is now saddled with a quarter-billion dollar debt over his government-mandated health care system. When he was governor they had the... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ Palm Beach Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2008/01/28/0128romney.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFZhcFGFBByWJycnZK1BFmtgUV_5w Jan 28, 2008 85391 113833 saddler Nobody could see what Rob has seen," McLeish told Sky Sports News. "I've seen the pictures since and Saddler wins the ball and Martins is never getting there. I'm not so sure, it was very soft. It was a really harsh decision against us and a...