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liable English

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liable

When you are liable, you are responsible for something by law. She was liable for the damage her car had caused in the accident. To be liable is to be likely to begin something. When he had too much to drink he was liable to get into a fight.

liable

(= apt) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant he is apt to lose she is liable to forget subject to legal action liable to criminal charges (often followed by 'to') likely to be affected with liable to diabetes held legally responsible men between the ages of 18 and 35 were liable for military service

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Simple sentences

We are liable for the damage.
We are liable to err.
In a similar situation, the company was held liable.
The man is liable to the death penalty.
If you disagree with him, he is liable to get angry.
We are liable to judge others by the clothes they wear.
These articles are liable to duty.

Movie subtitles

From 1 500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty.
We're liable to get it.
Something terrible is liable to happen.
It's liable to get chilly before morning.
He's liable to get tough, Mr. Smith.
It is liable to develop into a scandal that will involve all of us.
He's racing it so loud the public's liable to wake up one day.
They're liable to knock the props out from under me on account of this Bryant mess.
If the tax boys find out, they're liable to wonder where it comes from.
He's liable to keel over from the shock.
Jim, you're liable to kill Wahoo.
Oh, there's liable to be a Iittle justifiable homicide, but it'II all be very Iegal-Iike.
You're liable to get hurt.
You're liable to get us both in a jam.
Somebody's liable to see us.
A drop of rum in your tea is supposed to build up your strength. only the doctor says you must take it. after you've got into bed and be sure to keep well covered. as it's heating to the blood. and you're liable to take a chill.
Anybody's tongue is liable to slip.
He's liable to keel over from shock.
You're right. And there's liable to be bullets flyin' around this way any minute, so I'd advise you to get inside, off the street.
Supposing he does come and try and set his friends free isn't he liable to be a bit unpleasant?
If you give him a chance to live up to you. we're liable to have another splendid citizen on our hands.
Thirteen's liable to be unlucky for De Lautruc.
No parties. Theater's liable to be closed as a precautionary measure.
Mr. Morris. when your life has a bad spot in it and it's spoiling everything it touches and it's liable even to take your life away from you Don't you think it's better to just cut it out clean. no matter how much it might hurt?
They keep on running up that price. one of Jesse's own men's liable to take a shot at him.
From the way they talk, they're so glad to get rid of you. they're liable to make you a conductor on the road.
Now that's liable to be worth a fortune.
I'm liable to die, just like that.
Come on. You're liable to catch your death of cold if you.
And if you don't stop screamin' at him, it's liable to happen right here. and then you'll be sorry.
If I don't die on time something serious is liable to happen to me. L.
Well, you see, a lot of children play in here. You can tell people to drive slow and they're liable to forget but once they hit that hump, they don't forget.
Well, he's liable to do that every once in a while for a couple of months.
When a man's lived alone for 30 years as I have, he's liable to get a might tetched.
Yeah, but we're liable to be four any minute.
I should say they'd better do it and they're liable to cancel it, - now that you're back. Or so they say.
You're liable to croak him.

News and current affairs

It is more like an escalator: once we get on it, we are liable to be taken to places that we never expected to reach.
The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high-ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.
Democratic countries cannot tolerate large scale violation of human rights, and are liable to be drawn into local conflicts.
We must find ways to counteract this because a system that does not offer hope and opportunity to its losers is liable to be disrupted by acts of desperation.
Indeed, the government's suspicion of the international media is liable to spark friction when thousands of journalists arrive and inevitably widen their coverage beyond athletics to politics and human rights.
Financial markets, through which investment is made, were always liable to collapse when something happened to disturb business confidence.
America's legal system makes sure that firms that produce a defective, and particularly an unsafe product, are held liable for the consequences.
Only the homeowners are liable.
The problem is that if governments start to amend the draft constitution, the whole thing is liable to unravel.
On the contrary, Article 125 of the Maastricht Treaty explicitly excludes bailouts, stating that neither the Union nor its member states are liable for the commitments of EU governments.
The Greek crisis is liable to come to a climax in the fall, even if the election produces a government that is willing to abide by Greece's current agreement with its creditors.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company's shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm's debts, which severely restricted businesses' willingness to borrow to finance trade.
A debt-pooling scheme must also address the fact that the strongest countries will inevitably face higher interest rates on their own debts when they become jointly liable for the debts of less credit-worthy governments.
Nor does religion play a discernible role; while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being liable to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland's institutions.
For the first time, precise reference is made to people liable to be a threat to US security.
Who is to be held legally liable for this perversion of the law and basic moral principles?
And the latter is less liable than the political decision-maker who asked for it.
But he's also liable to turn a 30-month ceremonial post as the EU's figurehead into one with much more political clout than its 27 national leaders might like.
Voting on budgets in Parliament - a representative institution - ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government.
If the Central Asian republics are cut off from the West, they are liable to turn to China in order to avoid becoming totally dependent on Russia.
Both approaches were flawed - and liable to produce political controversy.
Most American journalists fully understand that Assange did not illegally obtain classified material; the criminally liable party is whoever released the material to the site.
This is liable to be reinforced by any negative experiences that Muslims may suffer themselves.
Given that many of them have international bank accounts in US dollars, they are liable to American prosecution.

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