Sentence examples for because they were liable from inspiring English sources

REFUNDABLE A.M.T. CREDITS Many people who had tax credits resulting from the exercise of incentive stock options in the dot-com heyday have been unable to claim them in recent years because they were liable for the alternative minimum tax.

Nugent also suggested that Zimmerman, who this month was found not guilty on all charges stemming from the incident, should sue Martin's parents because they were "liable for the emotional pain and suffering" he'd been put through during the trial.

Few prayer rolls that might be used as birth girdles have survived from medieval England, perhaps because they were liable to wear out or were destroyed in the Reformation.

Professors would never go along with it because they're liable for any safety or ethical violations that might occur".

If the aggressing combatants act permissibly, that must be because those they attack are legitimate targets — that is, because they are liable to attack.

"In other words, the current pre-discovery evidence suggests they _should _be sued for securities fraud because they are liable for securities fraud".

As tempting as it is, we can't demonize those on the other side as idiots who are out of touch, because they're liable to reach out across the dinner table to touch you (and rather sharply).

Because they are liable to cause a backlash, fiery Islamist clerics pose more danger to western Muslims than to anybody else.These arguments are seductive at a fearful time, yet they must be resisted.

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.

He said, 'Because they're liable to shoot you or throw you in a chain gang.' He showed me how to get on and off the moving freight train, how to protect myself from thieves, bums, and perverts, how to read the manifests on the sides of the boxcars.

It says it will work on improving the system, possibly through "improved technology" to track patients, and stop hospitals being discouraged from identifying foreign patients because they are liable for unrecoverable debts.