Sentence examples for escaped liability from inspiring English sources

For decades, companies that cleared such trades — Bear Stearns was a big one — escaped liability for fraud at these so-called "bucket shops".

Mr. Sambor also escaped liability, according to the report, partly because he relied on Mr. Richmond's judgment that the fire could be contained.

"Lacking any significant performance history, rating agencies rated unratable products for regulatory approval and escaped liability for doing so under First Amendment protection," said Joseph Mason, a finance professor at Louisiana State University.

Consider, for example, the defendant who escaped liability for a barrage of harassing comments, many of which had a bizarre, pun-like quality, such as, "Hey honey, how many wheels are in your menstrual cycle?" And then, finally, there are the defamation claims.

Mr. Richmond escaped liability partly because, in the report's words, he "could not foresee that Move members would remain inside and keep their children with them". Moreover, the report said, Mr. Richmond's judgment may have been irrelevant because by the time he made it it may have been too late to put out the fire.

Those terms, if proved in arbitration or court, might allow Anadarko to escape liability.

The employer was thus able to escape liability and Megan got nothing.

She added, "Nor can you escape liability by looking the other way.

"Every other chain that has this structure uses it to escape liability.

The original assumption is that the probability that parties might escape liability is variable among the population.

The programmer, the manufacturer, the commander, and the operator would all escape liability under existing law.