Sentence examples for real liabilities from inspiring English sources

Share prices were not affected, for instance, when FASB recently required firms to account for health-care benefits for workers after retirement, a change that looked huge but made no difference to their real liabilities.

But magistrates questioning company officials said earlier this week that they believed Parmalat, guided by Mr. Tanzi, had built up a network of offshore companies over the last 15 years in which nonexistent assets were declared to offset real liabilities accumulated by the company in a frenzied global acquisition spree.

Controlled fires are controversial, and they raise real liability issues.

"His inability to engage the politicians here has been a real liability," one Democratic lawmaker complained.

Bush and Baker fail to convey passion on issues, and that can be a real liability.

Outrage over Click had become a real liability for the university system.

Matthew Weidner, a real estate lawyer in St . Petersburg Fla., said he interpreted the lender's actions as saying, "We have real liability here".

She spun in 86 percent of her first serves against Stosur, but in this match the Errani serve could be a real liability.

"It's as if they imagined themselves to be in a brick and mortar world of real liability," the disaster expert said.

"They're right on the money that Laura Moser is the most far left of all the candidates, and that she would be a real liability in C.D. 7".

Despite all this, not to mention the ethics violation when he was speaker, Mr. Gingrich's real liability among the conservative and fundamentalist groups that dominate the Republican primaries is his personal history of infidelity that led to two sordid divorces.