The phrase "alone liable" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not commonly used and may create confusion regarding its intended meaning.
Example: "In this situation, he is alone liable for the damages caused."
Alternatives: "solely responsible" or "exclusively liable".
But if the case is lost, the pension fund would be alone liable for the corporate defendant's expenses, which in a securities class action could easily exceed $10 million (and other defendants will also have claims).
It could make Exxon, Chevron and ConocoPhillips alone liable for $340 billion in climate damages a year by 2030, either forcing their industry out of business or into a serious shift towards cleaner energy.
They have not paid up so far: Anadarko insists that BP was grossly negligent in its operation of the well, and thus it alone is liable.
This will leave the Socialists alone, and liable to be outwitted by the combined forces of a newly invigorated mainstream right.Indeed, the moderate right now looks in better shape than it has since its shattering defeat in the snap 1997 general election.
Yet Kurds who simply ask for Kurdish-language radio stations or education, let alone independence, are liable to be tortured and jailed.
I lack close family or friends to support me and on the many days I spend alone I am liable to forget how to talk.
The Catholic Church estimates it alone will be liable for about AU$1 billion in compensation.
Equally fundamental to the analysis is that it is far from clear that any of these principals or their company would even be civilly -- let alone criminally -- liable even if they resided in the US and all events occurred here.
On the other hand, Wolfie, leave the sons of bitches alone and they are liable to start crawling back into the womb or somewhere if you drop a porkpie hat".
The police were having a very hard time of it, he told me; now they daren't go out on patrols alone, because they are liable to attack and intimidation by a population that has lost its fear and respect for them.
Contrasts are striking between Korea -- where the head of Samsung is in jail and on trial -- and Germany, where the directors of Volkswagen were not held liable (let alone investigated) over diesel emission fraud in Europe.
