Sentence examples for a liability for a from inspiring English sources

Glibness is a liability for a book that constantly skips among anecdotes.

Yet if the Republican presidential debates have demonstrated anything, it is that intellect is not just a liability for a Republican primary contender, but a disqualifier.

Color had been shunned for an entirely different reason: It was used by advertising and amateurs, a liability for a medium struggling to be accepted as art.

The governor's aides said his liberal views on social issues made him an asset, not a liability, for a party that wants to attract moderate and uncommitted voters.

Nevertheless, if blown out of proportion, it could become a liability for a hand-shaking, baby-kissing politician in a campaign.

This offends Brunetti, who is distressed to think that the Venetian tolerance of corruption -- about which he himself is profoundly ambivalent -- has made it a liability for a decent person to maintain a commitment to justice.

Nossiter writes from a standpoint of moral neutrality that is an asset for a reporter but a liability for an author.

Delicacy proved to be a liability for an ethereal sculpture by Maria Elena González, "Whitewash Tower," which was damaged in transit; for the moment the artist has replaced it with "Grill Cross Box" (2005), an even more fragile-looking work consisting of a fluorescent light box adorned with strings of glue.

The speech may have established him as more of an asset than a liability for the Clinton campaign.

By extension, just as every debt is a liability for the borrower, it is an asset for the creditor.

The public debt is a liability for the government but it is an asset for the private sector.