A European Commission consultation on mobile health (mHealth) published this year noted: "Manufacturers need to have a clear understanding of their liability when designing mHealth solutions".
"We think we came to an understanding of the liability" issue, said the US ambassador to Delhi, Richard Verma, which will operate "through a memorandum of law within the Indian system".
This, too, is a preposterous understanding of responsibility and liability.
Provided the terrorists accept some such understanding of responsibility and liability, they kill and maim people they themselves must admit to be innocent.
The account presupposes a certain understanding of responsibility and liability: a person is responsible for a state of affairs only by virtue of that person's voluntary, i.e., informed and free, act or omission that has a sufficiently strong connection with that state of affairs, and thereby becomes liable to some proportionately unfavorable response.
The direct victims of terrorism are innocent in the sense of not being responsible, on any credible understanding of responsibility and liability, for the injustice or oppression the terrorists fight against not responsible at all, or at least not responsible to the degree that makes them liable to be killed or maimed on that account.
Without an understanding of the toxicological liability of proposed alternatives, the push for greener chemicals is limited to using chemical engineering tools to reduce the use of known hazardous precursors, maximize atom economy in synthetic processes, and increase the energy efficiency of reactions.
The same visit delivered what Mr Obama called a "breakthrough in understanding" over the liability of suppliers to any civil-nuclear power plants.
Specifically, we examine how twin, recurrence risk, and infant prospective tracking studies have contributed to our understanding of genetic and environmental liabilities towards neurodevelopmental morbidity through their impact on neurocognitive processes and structural/functional neuroanatomy.
Immigration lawyers questioned Republican lawmakers' understanding of immigration law and the liability local jurisdictions could face.
Within the new Commission, there will be a Taskforce on Crisis Protocols and Best Practices charged specifically with developing guidelines and protocols to help scientists who are involved in managing major natural hazards to develop a better understanding of their role, responsibilities and liabilities and their relationships to government and civil authorities.
