Sentence examples for child liable from inspiring English sources

Foreigners - especially perhaps Britons who, on the basis of very little first hand experience, still think of America as some sort of petulant child liable to throw a thermonuclear tantrum when denied its ice-cream, always get New York, not to say the rest of the republic over which they used to fly en route to a ski-lodge in Colorado or the Golden Gate Bridge, wrong.

"The bill does not criminalize sexual activity between children below 18 years as no child is liable for punishment for any of the offenses under the proposed law".

But remember that just because your child is liable to bite your head off at the slightest provocation, this does not mean that they don't love you!

Ofcom said that because the same programme featured a singer who was six years old and a dance troupe solely comprising a number of young children a number of children were liable to have been watching Dr Gore and his appearance was inappropriate.

Both Judaism and Islam, for example, set the age of majority, when children are liable for their actions, at 13 for boys and 12 for girls.

That caused the aristocracy no end of trouble, given that disobedient children were liable to threaten carefully negotiated contracts by running into the closet with a servant and whispering sweet promises.

If they're convinced by green marketers that they need to choose higher-priced organic produce, they and their children are liable to end up eating fewer fruits and vegetables — and sometimes nothing at all, as occurred when Zambia rejected emergency food for starving citizens because the grain had been genetically engineered.

On account of Paulus' comment, several scholars think the punishment of poena cuelli fell out of use in the third century CE, but the punishment was revived, and made broader (by including fathers who killed their children as liable to the punishment) by Emperor Constantine in a rescript from 318 CE.

This applies especially to children who walk with excessive knee flexion in midstance, since this walking pattern is particularly energy consuming [ 9, 10] and these children are liable to show deterioration in walking ability in (pre-) puberty [ 28, 29].

In developing countries, however, where sanitation is poor and exposure to contaminated food and water is virtually a daily norm, intestinal pathogens circulate at high frequency and children are liable to become repeatedly infected with them.

The sled should be easy to use, easily steerable by your child and not liable to take off without control.