Sentence examples for liability a from inspiring English sources

However, the nation's No. 1 investment firm said the agreement "represents neither evidence nor admission of wrongdoing or liability"–a bit short of Spitzer's initial goal of an admission of wrongdoing, which investors' attorneys said would've helped restitution efforts.

"We accept a limited liability," a spokeswoman said.

The state offers statutory relief from liability, a streamlined review process and straightforward clean-up standards.

A "Nervous Nelly" is a liability; a "cop's cop," an asset.

Under the legal principle of accomplice liability, a defendant can be convicted of murder without being the killer.

This is a legal standard intended to protect board members from liability; a case against the Bear Stearns directors for selling on the cheap was also dismissed.

This violates the fundamental rules of capitalism; Adam Smith himself was wary of the effect of limiting liability, a bedrock principle of the modern corporation.

As they point out, even a dollar bill is an American liability, a promise of ultimate payment by the US Treasury.

But he's a liability, a rococo psychopath who risks the shadowy drug firm's business model just as a big deal is poised to go down.

Two months later, ruling in a different fraud case, the Supreme Court upheld the concept of "scheme liability" -- a decision that gave clever lawyers a way around the court's earlier protection of third parties from liability claims.

The message was clear: Whether it was her low voice, her unconventional beauty or a sense of candor uncommon in glad-handing Hollywood, Cher has always been battling some perceived liability -- a superstar presenting herself as a marginalized figure.