"Joe, this is how you're liable to look when your term is up," Cheney joked to his successor, Joseph Biden.
Knowing how power is liable to corrupt them, they tend to shrink back at any hint of their own overreach and desire for control.
Such writing makes "The Last Hundred Days" an incisive and engaging account of a society and a historical period that is essential to remember, especially now, as the Soviet bloc recedes into the past, along with its painfully clear illustration of how people are liable to behave when they are bullied by their government and encouraged to view their fellow citizens with terror and paranoia.
It means taking a 360-degree view of what happened; who is being affected; how they are liable to feel and react; where the worlds of media and social media are; what the mood of the populace is; and what the general level of free-floating anger is in the world, because that can attach to your crisis whether it deserves it or not.
How might Goldman be liable beyond the $15 million fine?
Therefore, it is clear that ADS knew how to make Aladdin liable for the actions of Blackstone.
A re-examination of all categories of matrix effects, whose main origin is salinity, was thus undertaken to assess how much they are liable to alter the data.
But at least there has been a sharp demonstration of just how quickly they are liable to collapse if the corporate earnings that underpin them somehow fail to materialise.
In League One, Swindon, having sold last season's top Football League scorer, Simon Cox, to West Bromwich Albion, were given a painful reminder of how much they are liable to miss him as they crashed 5 0 at Gillingham.
The next day we watched two young females, journalist Asne Seierstadt and academic Elif Shafak, explore the position of women in the Middle East and examine how this position is liable to be (mis)interpreted in the two supposedly clashing cultures.
