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How to use the word liable in a Sentence? Page #3

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Do I think WhatsApp is liable to be an acute problem in the future? Yes, unequivocally.

– Sima Vaknin-Gil

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The killer part is the attorneys fees and the court costs, she is liable to the state and the American Civil Liberties Union.

– Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In coming weeks, the powers are liable to reach a framework agreement with Iran, an agreement liable to leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, as prime minister of Israel, I am obligated to make every effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weaponry that will be aimed at the State of Israel. This effort is global and I will go anywhere I am invited to make the State of Israel's case and defend its future and existence.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In coming weeks, the powers are liable to reach a framework agreement with Iran, an agreement liable to leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, something that would chiefly imperil the existence of the State of Israel, as prime minister of Israel, I am obligated to make every effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weaponry that will be aimed at the State of Israel. This effort is global and I will go anywhere I am invited to make the State of Israel's case and defend its future and existence.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If they don’t do the right thing, they will face some serious consequences, they are going to be liable for damages.

– Gideon International

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If you're liable on the savings but the loans don't get repaid, you've got a capital hole.

– Oleksandr Pysaruk

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

– John Lennon

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10 years ago

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

– Malcolm Muggeridge

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10 years ago

I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

– Mark Twain

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14 years ago

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

– Carl Sagan

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14 years ago

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

– Kareem Abdul-Jabar

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14 years ago

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

– Sarah Bernhardt

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14 years ago

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