Sentence examples for expensive liabilities from inspiring English sources

Now these promises are expensive liabilities.

But that would also mean inheriting expensive liabilities, such as the Thames's 44 weirs and locks that control the river level, which cost around £1.7m a year to maintain.

But by then its one-time core assets — retail stores — had become expensive liabilities, weighing down the company's effort to compete in the winner-take-all kind of market that is often characteristic of Big Bang innovation.

"Because health insurance is the principal mechanism for meeting these unpredictable and often expensive liabilities, it was reasonable for Congress to invoke that same mechanism to address the problem of uncompensated care," Verrilli wrote.

To compete successfully against new online retailers, traditional retailers would also need to find ways to transform the expensive liabilities of physical locations with limited hours and high labor and inventory costs into assets that complemented rather than competed with the online experience.

The league wants players treated effectively and fairly but also wants to protect its teams from expensive liability awards.

The medical liability system in the US is under discussion in surgical literature, as the system is associated with high costs and expensive liability premiums.

Compulsory – and expensive – liability insurance is required for anyone who is licensed to carry firearms, and strict rules govern the storage of guns in safes.

Banks won't loan money to a property developer without ensuring that the land is free of contamination, which can be an expensive liability.

But by the 1980's the theater had become an expensive liability for Mr. Cogan -- it reportedly cost $250,000 a year to maintain while dark -- and in 1986 it was sold to Murray Hill Properties for $5 million.

The mainstream parties have yet to square that circle convincingly, which makes a cut-price Farage an expensive liability for the Conservatives – and he is capable of doing damage to the left, too.