Underlying the items was a single factor representing liability to AUDs.
One of the most important ATCA decisions, in 1980, the Second Circuit court addressing Filartiga v. Pena-Irala [ 43], held that the ATCA represented liability for torture committed using state authority as it found a Paraguayan police official that visited the US to be criminally responsible for his actions in torturing and disappearing a young man in Paraguay.
Risk aversion of regulators and increasing awareness of environmental liabilities mean that compelling evidence will be required to demonstrate that these post-mine landforms represent minimal liability to subsequent land users before formal relinquishment will be possible.
Led by former Cold Warriors like Henry Kissinger and former Reagan Secretary of State, George Shultz, the emerging bipartisan consensus holds that in the post-9/11 world, nuclear weapons represent a liability, not a strength.
The inability of ATP-competitive inhibitors to suppress non-catalytic AKT functions in certain genetic contexts may represent a liability compared to allosteric AKT inhibitors.
Seventhly, we focused our findings on resource use and did not consider the relation between avoidance medicine that is, avoiding patients perceived to represent high liability risk, also called "negative defensive medicine"—with a lower risk of malpractice.
But this does not represent a liability of the work in my opinion; the authors are clearly entitled to their views, and the conclusions they draw appear to be both nuanced and well-supported by the data.
Historically, it paid no interest on the currency and bank reserves that represent its liabilities, while it made interest on the Treasury securities that make up its assets.
Defined-benefit funds are in trouble elsewhere as well because they represent future liabilities that are looking increasingly expensive to maintain.
This is money owed by other entities that local governments would probably feel compelled to repay, if push came to shove, even though they have not explicitly promised to do so.The 2.7 trillion and 4.3 trillion represent "contingent" liabilities.
