"But there is emerging evidence that this sort of thing is liable to happen more often in the future, so maybe it is a harbinger.
On the contrary, that sort of talk is liable only to reinforce China's fear that America's grand strategic design is to encircle it and block its rise as a great power.
Foreigners - especially perhaps Britons who, on the basis of very little first hand experience, still think of America as some sort of petulant child liable to throw a thermonuclear tantrum when denied its ice-cream, always get New York, not to say the rest of the republic over which they used to fly en route to a ski-lodge in Colorado or the Golden Gate Bridge, wrong.
After a brief email consultation with other mothers (not ones I like, just ones I know, otherwise it becomes an invalid exercise, because friends are in part selected because their attitudes jibe with your own), it turns out that the prevailing wisdom is that this sort of treatment is liable to damage a child's self-esteem.
Professionally, he drifted from one minor role to the next in a run of TV movies and mini-series, often costume dramas of one kind or another, and mostly of the sort only liable to be found at off-peak hours on the more obscure channels.
As one ancient Greek text put it, "In pregnancy, the onset of drowsy headaches with heaviness is bad; such cases are perhaps liable to some sort of fits at the same time" — apparently an allusion to the seizures that occur when preeclampsia becomes eclampsia.
Austin thought that our uses of words are always liable to that sort of failure, especially when we are doing philosophy.
Treating all laws as commands conceals important differences in their social functions, in the ways they operate in practical reasoning, and in the sort of justifications to which they are liable.
It is unclear, I guess, but looked at one way it would suggest that every patient from this clinic, no matter how long ago they had every aspect of treatment, including surgery, would have to disclose this to everybody in every circumstance to avoid being liable to this sort of conviction".
