(n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
(n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.
(n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liability of retransplanted syngeneic skin grafts to rejection could be almost entirely abolished by their exposure to 300 rads irradiation before placement on the intermediate host.
(2) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(3) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
(4) The precise aetiology of AHQS is still unresolved but it is concluded that it probably occurs post-natally and that some pigs have a genetic liability to develop the condition.
(5) But Burr admitted the bill would still allow companies to share directly with the NSA, and could potentially receive liability protections if information is shared “not electronically”.
(6) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(7) For a substantial majority of the symptoms, the variance in liability was best explained by only genetic factors and environmental influences specific to the individual, where 33% to 46% of the variance was due to genetic factors.
(8) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(9) Whilst a charity may seem to have plenty of cash to meet its general liabilities, if the money is in the form of restricted funds it can only be used with permission of the donor or the Charity Commission .
(10) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(11) Recent court decisions since the landmark Wickline v. The State of California case in 1987 have addressed this issue of shared liability between payors and providers.
(12) We could be in a situation now where the potential liabilities are higher, which makes it more unlikely to find private investment.
(13) In summary, there are now available very potent narcotics, with small side effect liability.
(14) Continued escalation of claims frequency, however, and average paid-claim costs mean that other remedies will have to be sought if the professional liability problem is to be solved.
(15) But once legal liability cases began, evidence emerged from internal documents that Wyeth knew of far more cases of pulmonary hypertension than had been declared either to the FDA or to patients.
(16) In summary, the liability to exencephaly in SELH mice appears to be a multifactorial threshold trait, and it therefore resembles human neural tube defects in type of genetic etiology.
(17) This escape from liability occurs despite the fact that almost half of all traffic fatalities are attributable to alcohol.
(18) The infrastructure of New York that was once an "engineering marvel" is now a "liability", he said, urging a long-term rethink.
(19) To assess the physical dependence liability of dynorphin A analogs, mice were given repeated injections of various dynorphin A analogs twice daily for 5 days, and rats were given repeated administration of [N-methyl-Tyr1,N-methyl-Arg7,D-Leu8]dynorphin-A-(1-8) ethylamide (E-2078) twice daily for up to 7 weeks.
(20) The relative merits and liabilities for each wavelength and delivery system are discussed.
Scrutiny
Definition:
(n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.
(n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
(n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
(n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
(v. t.) To scrutinize.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(2) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
(3) Even so, the controversy over the last assessment, and the political polarisation in America and other countries around climate science and the need for climate action, have created an additional layer of scrutiny around next week's report.
(4) Recommendations are made suggesting closer scrutiny of this region of the spine.
(5) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
(6) Trump and Hillary Clinton’s dismal honesty ratings, he says, show scrutiny is working.
(7) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
(8) The surgical modality used was the modified Widman flap operation and the pockets under scrutiny were those with an initial probing depth of 4-6 mm.
(9) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
(10) "There is understandable scrutiny on how we are doing things and that should act as a conduit to look at labor issues across the region.
(11) In most developing countries abortion is illegal, and scrutiny of hospital records on complication (a 49% rate in a study in Latin America and 46% hospitalization) is a source.
(12) There is all sorts of opacity which makes it easy for an employee to suffer retaliation.” Despite recent reforms to improve transparency and accountability, the organisation remains impervious to public scrutiny, with no established mechanism for freedom of information – a right which more than 100 governments around the world have enshrined in law, and is openly advocated by UN bodies such as Unesco.
(13) Those seeking to stop the project contend that the $997m joint venture, signed in May 2010, did not undergo parliamentary scrutiny because it was concluded under the previous military regime.
(14) It is essential, therefore, to submit one's loyalties and value judgments to constant scrutiny and questioning and to those theological criteria that make abortion also (though not only) a theological question, a task not without its risks.
(15) But the damage from the whole affair and inevitable scrutiny of her successor might just mean they take a more even-handed approach to the job.
(16) WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal which of their users are under similar scrutiny.
(17) Reacting to the announcement of the government review, Lady Smith of Basildon, the shadow leader of the Lords, said: “This is a massive over-reaction from a prime minister that clearly resents any challenge or meaningful scrutiny.
(18) But when they show up in Manchester at lunchtime on Tuesday to take part in a Conservative conference fringe meeting entitled Challenges for the EU in 2010, they may find themselves under the kind of scrutiny they rarely face at home.
(19) On the back of the disclosures, President Obama ordered a White House review into data surveillance , a number of congressional reform bills have been introduced, and protections have begun to be put in place to safeguard privacy for foreign leaders and to increase scrutiny over the NSA’s mass data collection.
(20) Alternative taxonomic structures require careful scrutiny and comparison to establish whether one structure will meet the needs of the profession or whether multiple structures of nursing diagnoses relative to outcomes are required.