Sentence examples for heavy liabilities from inspiring English sources

That made the country's banks, which had heavy liabilities in other currencies, insolvent almost overnight.

Playing to concerns about potentially heavy liabilities, Mr. Icahn underscored yesterday that "the clock is ticking on tobacco litigation".

And America's households may finally turn to the unfinished business that the last, mild recession never took care of: namely, a savings rate of little more than 2% of disposable income.The Fed seems untroubled by households' heavy liabilities because the value of their assets has increased even more.

The Spanish firm Abengoa has narrowly escaped bankruptcy for now, but like SunEdison it's saddled with heavy liabilities and dubious paths for paying them off. .

He resigned a week later, as he appeared to be a heavy liability for the Democrats facing parliamentary elections on July 11.

In addition to foreshadowing more losses for the party in November, the outcome appeared to call into question the belief that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois could be a heavy liability for his party's down-ticket candidates in conservative regions.

Dually eligible beneficiaries are still viewed as a heavy liability to public and private insurers in the United States [ 3].

Both Greece and Ireland are carrying heavy public liabilities denominated in a currency (the euro) that they cannot print.

The $17 million Mr. Salkind agreed to pay back would seem to stick out, compared with similar tax evasion cases prosecuted during Mr. Christie's tenure: Other plea deals resulting in sentences of 18 to 24 months, court records show, involved tax losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and did not accompany such heavy civil liabilities.

A bigger problem with enforcing such a heavy tax liability, as President François Hollande discovered, is that many rich taxpayers literally will not sit still for it.

Adding to the threat to free speech, recent academic research on global Internet censorship has found that in countries where heavy legal liability is imposed on companies, employees tasked with day-to-day censorship jobs have a strong incentive to play it safe and over-censor — even in the case of content whose legality might stand a good chance of holding up in a court of law.