Sentence examples for evading liability from inspiring English sources

And Congress sought by section 3 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 6336c) to discourage the postponement of distribution for the illegitimate purpose of evading liability to surtaxes.

They evade liability.

Big auditing companies such as KPMG and Deloitte have evaded liability by creating generic assessments of their clients' financial standings.

That strategy, the complaint says, would let BET "evade liability for withholding of taxes from wages of these employees".

"The Paycheck Fairness Act closes numerous loopholes that have enabled employers to evade liability," said Ms. DeLauro, the chief sponsor of that bill.

I asked Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat whose name is on the 2010 financial reform legislation, if he was concerned that the S.E.C.'s inaction was enabling ratings agencies to evade liability.

Gerald H. Silk, who also represents the plaintiffs, said: "Corporate fiduciaries cannot expect to evade liability by blaming a general market downturn when there is specific and systematic misconduct taking place right beneath their noses".

Lawyers said the state requires the buyer of a contaminated site to be unaffiliated with past owners or operators so polluters cannot evade liability by using another company to stand in their place.

Churches have repeatedly attempted to evade liability by claiming that the relationship between a priest or monk and their diocese or religious order is not that of employee and employer.

Automated filters are not mandated by the law, but they "might effectively be the only way to evade liability for the respective platforms," says Sebastian Schwemer, researcher at the Centre for Information and Innovation Law at the University of Copenhagen.

The Court considered the same concepts in Warner-Jenkinson Co. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co., 520 U.S. 17 (1997), and reaffirmed that a patent protects its holder against efforts of copyists to evade liability for infringement by making only insubstantial changes to a patented invention.