Liable
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Third, the EU must strengthen its defenses to protect itself from its external enemies, who are
liable
to take advantage of its current weakness.
Both approaches were flawed – and
liable
to produce political controversy.
But we are all
liable
to seek information that confirms our beliefs and ignore information that challenges them.
Trump’s two eldest sons, who run his business empire, may also be
liable
for misdeeds.
Commercial banks must be
liable
for the risks that they take, and the use of taxpayers’ money in winding down banks must be categorically ruled out.
The Greek crisis is
liable
to come to a climax in the fall, even if the election produces a government that is willing to abide by Greece’s current agreement with its creditors.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each
liable
for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to borrow to finance trade.
If just one child died on this sheet, no matter the cause, the company producing the sheet would likely be held
liable.
Nor does religion play a discernible role; while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being
liable
to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland’s institutions.
If the Central Asian republics are cut off from the West, they are
liable
to turn to China in order to avoid becoming totally dependent on Russia.
Thus, doctors would become
liable
for the value of their subsidized training when they elect to work abroad.
Indeed, the government’s suspicion of the international media is
liable
to spark friction when thousands of journalists arrive and inevitably widen their coverage beyond athletics to politics and human rights.
It is theoretically possible that a single country could be held
liable
for the ESM’s total exposure of €700 billion.
It is more like an escalator: once we get on it, we are
liable
to be taken to places that we never expected to reach.
We also acknowledge that the consequences of an airplane crash are
liable
to be far more catastrophic than, say, those of a cyclist clipping a curb on his way home from the shops.
Germany versus the EuroBERLIN – Usually, people or institutions are taken to court when things go wrong and a fight ensues about who is
liable
for the damage.
Voting budgets in parliament – a representative institution – ensured that the people as a whole were
liable
for the obligations incurred by their government.
With the exception of launching a nuclear war, it is hard to think of anything a US president could do that is
liable
to harm more people than last month’s order canceling rules issued under former President Barack Obama to freeze the construction of new coal-fired power plants and shut down many old ones.
As the Norwegian EEA Agreement puts it, “if serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties of a sectoral or regional nature
liable
to persist are arising,” limits on free movement may be applied.
But unless this view is tempered by the recognition of a common interest that takes precedence over individual interests, our present system--which, however imperfect, qualifies as an open society--is
liable
to break down.
And since bombing is
liable
to produce rising casualties among civilians, even the simple continuation of the bombing may be difficult to sustain.
Unfortunately, the recovery is
liable
to run out of steam, and may even be followed by a second economic downturn, though I am not sure whether it will occur in 2010 or 2011.
Opponents said the proposed law would reach far beyond sites like Megaupload, making Google and YouTube
liable
for copyright infringement – and allowing the government to block (without court authorization) access to Web sites that it deemed to be facilitating copyright infringement.
Most American journalists fully understand that Assange did not illegally obtain classified material; the criminally
liable
party is whoever released the material to the site.
A debt-pooling scheme must also address the fact that the strongest countries will inevitably face higher interest rates on their own debts when they become jointly
liable
for the debts of less credit-worthy governments.
Democratic countries cannot tolerate large scale violation of human rights, and are
liable
to be drawn into local conflicts.
We must find ways to counteract this because a system that does not offer hope and opportunity to its losers is
liable
to be disrupted by acts of desperation.
So the relationship is
liable
to go wrong at the worst possible time: when a hedge would be most useful, the asset you were relying on becomes a risk.
Under the latest eurozone reforms, the principle that those who assume a risk should be
liable
for it has been replaced by a principle of joint liability, implying financial transfers on an unprecedented scale in the event of a crisis.
Mutual resentment between creditors and debtors is
liable
to grow, and there is a real danger that the euro may destroy the EU’s political and social cohesion.
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