By contrast, history will recognise Gordon Brown's intellectual acuity and political resolve when the edifice of global capitalism looked liable to fall.
Blessed with a deft game at the net, Zahlavova-Strycova's stubbornness knew no bounds, even though this frowning, fist-pumping scrapper often looked liable to erupt whenever she missed a shot.
There was no let-up from Celtic at the start of the second half and, when Commons got goal-side of Cummins, the defender always looked liable to concede the penalty.
Anyone who stands in the middle of Guangzhou's high-rise district and looks up is liable to suffer dizziness.
It's not clear, though, that the younger comics are markedly ruder than QI's Stephen Fry and the regulars on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (both 10pm panel shows, she has previously implied, are looking whiskery and liable to be cut back), or how signing them up represents feminisation: so far, if anything, it's a case of BBC2 showing its pants more.
Now it looks like the giant retailer could be liable for up to $3.6 billion.
None the less, looks like an interesting campaign that's liable to raise the profile of Yahoo!
Sadly, it is liable to limp on until an opposition that looks fit to govern emerges.
"Joe, this is how you're liable to look when your term is up," Cheney joked to his successor, Joseph Biden.
Whereas the modern stargazer is liable to look up with a sense of existential wonder, if not dread, our ancestors may have seen in that lovely firmament a map of home.
