Moreover, it was not a disadvantage to talk to a girl who made one keep guard on one's composure; it diminished one's chronic liability to utter something less than revised wisdom.
Thus by continually marrying into strong strains liability to manifest any recessive defect can be diminished in a few generations until the descendants are no more likely to have defective children than are members of our ordinary population.
The average liability to consumption among persons breathing the kinds of dust named was 24 per thousand, or 2.
Another consideration has led to this, which is the liability of my letters to miscarry, be opened, and made ill use of.
By this means, he avoided committing himself to any liability to prosecution for forgery, and gave another proof of being a great man in little things, while he is really small in great ones.
For years they had believed that liability extinguished through the operation of time.
But one thing they had in common, in addition to the gray hair of age, and that was a joint liability for the past.
Occasionally we passed a deserted lumberman's hut by the wayside, and discussed the liability of a breakdown or an overturn in that wild region.
All such defects of tone and posture (as indeed Dickinson and Truslow realise) have their inevitable reaction on the nervous system: they produce a constant wearing stress, a perpetual liability to pain.
With whatever terror we may view any general claim to the right of nakedness, the mere liability to nakedness, the mere freedom to be naked, at once introduces a new motive into life.
Several assessments may be ordered, but they never exceed in the aggregate more than the amount ofliability fixed by law, the amount or twice the amount of the par value of the stock subscribed.
For example, in some states he is not liable for slanderous words spoken by her in his absence; in other states his liability continues.
Curiously enough, I see that it has been objected to the right of female suffrage within the last few days, that there is this analogy between the right of franchise and the liability to watch and ward.
In Rio these rumours were increased; and the probability of hostilities induced our Commodore to authorize proceedings that closely brought home to every man on board the Neversink his liability at any time to be killed at his gun.
Will you say that, by so doing, he degrades himself to the liability of the scourge, but if he tarries ashore in time of danger, he is safe from that indignity?
This then, he argues, which enters so largely into the existence of every living soul, should never be regarded with an eye of terror, as an appalling liability or a fearful unaccountable disturbance in the course of our lives.
Joint owners of a patent, right are not copartners, and in the absence of any express contract each is at liberty to use his moiety as he may think fit, without any liability to or accounting to the other for profits or losses.
It is through this liability in the primal elements that volition in living beings becomes possible.
This liability to declension is the sole thing to break the chain of necessity--'quod fati foedera rumpat.
It has not been a want of interest in this subject that has delayed me, for there is probably no subject in which I have more interest than the one of employers' liability and workmen's compensation.
Bureau of Labor to publish the foreign compensation laws in English, and to investigate the comparative cost to employers, of liability insurance under the American system, and workmen's compensation under the British and German systems.
She saw the failure of the Gladstone Act, and went to the bottom of the matter by deciding to abolish entirely all matters of liability and put it altogether on another basis.
Unless the workingman was convinced that he had a reasonably good case, he would not proceed under the liability laws, but would, on the other hand, proceed under the compensation act.
There is in it nothing about color; nothing from which a liability to slavery can be predicated of one person more than another; or from which such a liability can be predicated of any person whatever.
Concentrated attacks were made by enemy U-boats on the ships that carried the very first contingent to Europe, and all that have gone since have faced this liability to attack.
Germany sends note acknowledging herliability in the "Lusitania" affair.
A formal communication, including such a declaration and expressing regret for loss of American lives, assuming liability and offering reparation in the form of indemnity, was submitted to Secretary Lansing.
It was necessary to amuse the masses by what are termed liberal measures, and as an excess of liberality, it was proposed that every debtor, paying one fourth of his debt, should be released from all furtherliability to his creditor.
In all cases, however, so little is called up of the nominal amount of their shares, that a very large liability attaches to them.
A joint-stock bank is composed of a number of proprietors who hold the shares which make up the capital of the bank, and to the nominal amount of these shares their liability is limited.
In all cases, of course, theliability of the office is limited to a certain declared amount.
At the present time the rage appears to have set in for forming limited liability companies out of private industrial concerns or trading firms.
The letter was probably written with knowledge of its liabilityto fall into the hands of the French Committee.
Hazen included the officers who had capitulated with Cornwallis, though they were expressly relieved from liability to reprisals (Article 14).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liability" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
