Sentence examples for theory liable from inspiring English sources

For instance, Fiat now owns Chrysler, and it is in theory liable for warranties that Chrysler provided to consumers before Fiat bought its operations.

The difference is that while women wearing niqabs are in theory liable to a €150 fine, men obliging them to do so face fines of €30,000 and a year in jail; with burkinis, liability rests with the woman.

If the price tag is below €4.4 billion, banks, not taxpayers, in theory fall liable for the difference.

Then, on Wednesday, he and the BP chairman announced that the company — which is, in theory, only liable for $75 million in economic damage payments — was forgoing its dividend and setting up a $20 billion fund to compensate the workers and businesses who have been harmed by the spill.

Which of these two theories is liable to prevail?

One problem is that Italian officials charged with detecting adulterated oil can, in theory, be held liable for their actions.

Here members would offer papers and discuss Freud's theories, and were liable to be trounced or excommunicated by Freud, only to find later that choice parts of their rejected revisions had been incorporated into his own revised model.

If a theory by nature is liable to change, it cannot be considered absolutely true.

In 2012 Xiao Gang, then chairman of the state-owned Bank of China and now in charge of regulating the country's stockmarkets, described this as "to some extent…a Ponzi scheme".In theory banks are not liable when WMPs go wrong.

His finding will prevent Iridium creditors from recovering at least some of the $3.45 billion they claim Motorola owes them under a theory that it was liable for Iridium's collapse because it saddled the unit with debt and a poor business plan as consumers shunned its bulky, expensive phones.

Otherwise, expected utility theory is fickle, and liable to change its advice when fed different descriptions of the same problem.