He had become a liability because of his notoriety.
Testaverde would be a treat for Tampa Bay because of his lack of mobility; Bollinger is a liability because of a lack of experience.
That wasn't feasible without first establishing limited liability, because of the risk that a lawsuit involving any company in the portfolio could bring a major personal loss.
When H.M.O.'s are sued in state court, they usually argue that they have no liability because of a 1974 federal law on employee benefits, which limits the remedies available to patients.
Yet Mr. Clinton is also a potential liability because of the questions he provokes, as both a polarizing former president who could return to the White House and as a husband whose behavior in the Monica Lewinsky affair lingers in some minds.
Three senior members of Thailand's powerful privy council, a group of advisers appointed by the king, make clear their preference for an alternative to Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, who is considered a political liability because of his extramarital affairs in several European countries.
Under the best of circumstances, registration-focused clinical trials have limited potential to detect abuse liability because of the small number of patients seen and the exclusion of many subjects who might be particularly vulnerable to the abuse of marketed compounds (i.e. individuals with substance use disorders).
Even though DeAndre Jordan is a talented and athletic center, in the fourth quarter he often becomes a liability because of his poor free throw shooting.
The Review Board, however, still considered Parsons a liability because of his historical Marxist affiliations and investigations by the FBI, and in January 1952 they permanently reinstated their ban on him working for classified projects, effectively prohibiting him from working in rocketry.
