Sentence examples for latter liable from inspiring English sources

How else to explain Mail Online's confident banner headline assertion on Wednesday night that the family of Michael Jackson had won a historic victory against the promoters AEG, making the latter liable for damages worth many millions.

Most Americans (54%) oppose the lawsuits filed by cities against the gun industry to hold the latter liable for the injuries caused by their products (though a similar majority opposes outlawing such suits).

No more than four thousand men could be liable under this latter provision at any one time, and the power was not to be exercised except for overseas service when "warlike operations are in preparation or in progress".

Unlike the pope or president of the Latter Day Saints, however, he was liable to be overthrown if the forces of nature did not cooperate.

In the latter case, the emancipated slave could be liable to a number of obligations to the former master.

The eletrophoretic mobility of quartz was not modified by the adsorption of asphaltenes in contrast to that observed for feldspar and biotite, indicating that the sites liable for the surface charge of the latter minerals were affected by the presence of the adsorbed organic species.

The former tend to create dependence on public support and control technology innovation but minimize opportunities for corruption, whereas the latter enable technology innovation by local partners but may be liable to favoritism.

To the extent that they lead lives that are isolated from the lives of the disadvantaged and personally know few disadvantaged people, they are liable to be relatively ignorant of the problems the latter face in their lives and of the constraints within which the latter must cope with their problems.

The authors found initially that if a suitably nucleophilic amine, such as DABCO, was employed, the cationic intermediate generated (287) was liable to a second SN2′ reaction from TMSCF3, the latter reagent presumably activated by acetate (Scheme 108).

GM spun off Delphi in 1999, and would be liable for some of Delphi's pension costs if the latter were to enter Chapter 11.

The latter chances are not necessarily of any particular importance (stockholders normally aren't liable if a company can't pay its debts and expenses; their stock just becomes worthless).