Sentence examples for a liability that from inspiring English sources

Steinitz saw such a pawn as a liability that could be advantageously blockaded by an enemy knight and eventually captured.

The defendants face a liability that could reach $1 billion or more if they are found to have been negligent.

Now it can be seen for what it is: a liability that needs to be corrected by appearing, say, after a dog puppet.

In the day to day of the Parable books, hyperempathy is a liability that makes moving through the world more complicated and, for tactical reasons, requires those who have it to behave more ruthlessly.

While Block assured shareholders that management had no concerns, a position Ms. McDougall reiterated in an interview, a federal judge earlier this year said that in Texas alone Block faced a liability that ranged from zero to $2 billion.

An endorsement by Iowa's main paper, the Des Moines Register, was once universally regarded as a coveted prize; today some see its support of Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio as a liability that paints them as establishment candidates.

Defined-benefit plans, in contrast, are a looming liability that can eat into a company's profits (in case of unanticipated cash calls to top up a pension-fund shortfall).

"Bahrain," Mr Davidson said, "is an extreme liability that requires a diplomatic solution".

In these models, the discrete variables Y are modelled conditional to an unobservable liability that follows a proportional hazard model.

The danger, experts say, is that China's municipal governments could already be sitting on huge mountains of hidden debt — a lurking liability that threatens to stunt the nation's economic growth for years or even decades to come.

"My $100,000 asset turned into a $100,000 liability — that's kind of the way I look at it," Ms. Davis, 67, said by phone from Anthony, Kan., the small town where she now runs a bed-and-breakfast.