Sentence examples for liable for doing from inspiring English sources

John Ashcroft's argument that telecommunications companies ought not be held liable for doing whatever the president asks them to do assumes that the government knows best and that we should trust the government.

Nor are any of them -- private-equity, hedge-fund, or pension-fund managers -- personally liable for doing adequate due diligence.

Should Robert Kennedy or Bill Maher or Jenny McCarthy be held legally liable for doing harm with their distortions of the evidence about vaccines?

But most importantly, Barnes v. Zaccari serves as a warning to administrators that might violate the basic rights of their students that they can be held personally financially liable for doing so.

The case against posting this video, I suspect, is twofold: it is too shocking for the American public to see, and the mere act of looking at the pilot's final agony may somehow make the viewer feel complicit with his torturers--just as the act of witnessing a lynching in days of yore might have made the witness feel guilty of condoning it, though never liable to prosecution for doing so.

If any one felt called to practice, he could do so simply being made liable to prosecution for doing badly what he was not educated to do, and did not know how to do, much loss to do well.

An Associated Press report, meanwhile, questioned whether Snohomish County might be held liable for not doing more to protect residents, despite reports, warnings and a previous slide in 2006.

One reason for caution is that membership in a conspiracy makes an individual liable for everything done by others in that conspiracy, even if the individual did not approve or know about a crime.

"Make the gun manufacturers liable for harm done with their products.

We held that because surgeons in private practice or private landlords were liable for negligence did not mean the United States was.

It was argued that if railroads had to be responsible for their acts of negligence, no company could possibly run trains; if turnpike companies had to pay for harm done through negligence, no roads would be built; if municipalities were to be financially liable for damage done by their motor vehicles, their treasuries would be depleted.