Sentence examples for to escape liability from inspiring English sources

Those terms, if proved in arbitration or court, might allow Anadarko to escape liability.

The employer was thus able to escape liability and Megan got nothing.

"Every other chain that has this structure uses it to escape liability.

In ECJ parlance, the delay must be caused by "extraordinary circumstances" for the airline to escape liability.

"All too often, in the past, organisations have been able to escape liability for errors where if an individual had been responsible they would have been convicted.

But critics say such an exemption could make it easier for Aventis to escape liability for any harm, including farmers' economic losses.

Mr. Schachter of Fenwick & West, for example, said many of his clients had been issuing overly broad noncompete agreements for mere psychological effect, assuming that if an employee ever took them to court, they could escape liability by saying they were not enforcing the agreement.

As his other three goals, Mr. Romney would cut income tax rates by 20 percent, eliminate the estate tax and end the alternative minimum tax, which was designed to ensure that the richest taxpayers did not escape liability due to various tax breaks but which increasingly threatens moderate-income households.

Prof. Joseph A. Grundfest, an expert in business law at Stanford Law School, said Anadarko and MOEX might also be making a simple calculation: that if there is a chance they could escape liability, they can afford to take a wait-and-see approach.

"Manor Care already fights tooth and nail in every lawsuit to say that the parent company should escape liability," said Nathan P. Carter, who has filed dozens of suits against Manor Care and other nursing home chains.

Under existing laws, computer programmers, manufacturers and military commanders would all escape liability for deaths caused by such machines, according to the study published on Thursday by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School.