I had a feeling things might be more complicated, with issues of joint liability raising their horned heads, but I had once watched two full-grown cougars walk down a frozen Hyalite Creek, their tails twitching, hunting into the wind for deer.
In other words, general warrants, which were essentially "get-out-of-jail-free cards" for the police, to insulate them from civil liability, raised special problems at the time of the nation's founding, when the framers were concerned about the arbitrary exercise of imperial authority from London.
A rule of fault liability raises the costs of those who are injured relative to strict liability, since they are compensated for fewer accidents.
Further exploration of specific changes in service delivery is required to assess how well-founded these concerns are and to shed light on the potential risks and dimensions of liability raised by a shift from hospital to community-delivered and hospital-supported care.
Large, long-term benefits packages are given to public-sector employees in lieu of current pay raises because the politicians giving them out don't want the political liability of raising taxes on voters now.
President Barack Obama in January proposed a tax of 0.15 percent of net bank liabilities to raise up to $117 billion over 10 years.
The report said "special purpose entities" (SPEs) set up by companies were typically subsidiaries that had little connection to the local economy but held assets or liabilities or raised capital.
Ireland's bank liabilities have raised its public debt to 95 percent, while French debt is 83 percent of G.D.P. Germany fears that e-bonds would raise its own borrowing costs — the lowest in the Union — and require it to subsidize profligate states.
His family considered their Jewish heritage a liability and raised him as a Lutheran.
Beyond the specifics, however, Mr. Florio's attempts to turn Mr. Corzine's Wall Street success into a political liability also raise questions about how much responsibility a chief executive should bear for the actions of a huge multinational finance firm and the political entanglements of its clients.
