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Liable in sentence

133 examples of Liable in a sentence

They're not legally liable.
We don't have a situation that Iran has, for example, where a man who's sexually attracted to other men is liable to be murdered, unless he's willing to submit to a sex change, in which case he's allowed to live.
I shall now, therefore, humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
The only thing is that it's liable to having its bluff called, and therefore can only work if it's credible.
But if you believe the way science is taught, and if you believe textbooks, you're liable to have the following schema of research.
So supermarkets, the slaughterhouses, and so on that buy products from illegal clear-cut areas, they also can be liable for the deforestation.
In fact, if ever you're in a line, and someone in front pulls out their chequebook to pay, you are liable to say to yourself, 'Really, a chequebook?
The unfortunate thing is that now, as we look at the independent analyses of what those climate treaties are liable to yield, the magnitude of the problem before us becomes clear.
I'm not talking about the awards themselves- as usual, there is plenty to argue about when you tally up who won, who lost, and who never even got nominated, but the process is as it's always been and is as fair as it's liable to be.
And when she's not draining these guys of all their manly energies, as the viewer learns, she's liable to be taking a karate class, mile-high clubbing, fending off flashers and rapists, attending groovy pot parties AND stopping a hijacking attempt on her airplane.
This is the kind of film that, if it were made today, it would probably star Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant; actually, now that I think about it, this one is quite liable to be remade one day.
Life is what it is shown in the movie: when people are young, they seem not to understand their parents, their own spouses; people have every excuse for not sharing the dearest time with their children until too late; people always have to work hard to support the whole family but are just liable to neglect the subtle feeling of their partners; people always change their perspectives at different stages of their lives; people can always be forgiven if their heart is full of love for their beloved; nothing is more important than the blood relation people share in this world, and one is never too late to talk with their folks about what they feel at the bottom of their heart so as to achieve a better understanding between themselves, so that when life has to end some day, people should not feel sorry or regretful since they have kept their words and there is always hope ---a new life.
Both are quiet, contemplative, and very rational persons, not liable to act spontaneous.
And to top it all off, we have A. Banderas, who, come to think of it, may actually be the closest thing to a male counterpart to Melanie Griffith you're liable to find.
Well, when they started work on their first Fox feature, the movie they made, Great Guns, came on the heels of the success of Buck Privates and if one looked at the original script of the Fox/L & H picture, you'd know that indeed the studio wanted to capitalize on the Universal/A & C blockbuster as evidenced by this unfilmed exchange between Stan & Ollie: O: Wait-, S: What's the matter?, O: Don't throw the water out there!, S: Why not?, O: The sergeant is just liable to come walking in!, S: What's the matter with that?, O: Don't you remember?
With the passage of time, the deficiencies are likely to make their effect felt -- boom is liable to turn into bust.
In 2002, Harvey Pitt, the former chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, made a dramatic call for CEOs of US companies with revenues exceeding $1.2 billion to sign their financial statements by August 14, 2002--and then be held criminally liable if the statements turn out to be fraudulent.
America's legal system makes sure that firms that produce a defective, and particularly an unsafe product, are held liable for the consequences.
Similarly, environmental laws make firms liable for their toxic wastes, and many countries, including the US, have enshrined the principle that "polluters pay," that is, companies must pay for the damage they cause.
It is conditional on beneficiaries’ having signed on to a fiscal treaty that commits them to budgetary responsibility and makes them liable to quasi-automatic sanctions.
Now governments need to take quick action to avoid becoming liable for these exposures.
Collectively, the Germans had not been the innocent victims of a small gang of criminal outsiders called “Nazis” – Nazism had been an inside ideology supported by millions of Germans, and every German was liable for its atrocities whether or not he or she had adhered to it individually.
They will choke on the commission’s recommendation of a new criminal offense for reckless conduct that leads to taxpayer bailouts, reinforced by a new “senior persons” regime that would ascribe all bank functions to a specific individual, who would be held personally liable when things go wrong.
This is liable to be reinforced by any negative experiences that Muslims may suffer themselves.
Financial markets, through which investment is made, were always liable to collapse when something happened to disturb business confidence.
In the new order established under this Second Turkish Republic, any challenge to his authority is liable to be viewed as treason.
The Principles state that anyone who commits a crime under international law is responsible for it and liable to be punished, regardless of the legality of their behavior according to the domestic law of the country in which they acted.
In most affluent countries, if you were to confine dogs for months in cages like the stalls in which pigs on factory farms are often kept, you would be liable to prosecution.
Moreover, even in those states where there is full recourse, so that the homeowner remains liable for the full amount of the mortgage loan (that is, the difference between the balance due and the value recovered by selling the home), America’s procedures for personal bankruptcy offer a relatively quick solution.
For the first time, precise reference is made to people liable to be a threat to US security.
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