Jeff Sklansky says the nineteenth century development of limited liability helped shape the modern corporation.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

You might have brought in investments or something by borrowing money, so the investment--the combined investment and liability could be very volatile.

你可能通过贷款,进行投资或运行某种项目,因而投资...这种兼有投资,和负债性质的项目,风险极高

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If you buy stock in a company the most you can lose is the money you put up, so that's called limited liability.

如果你买了一个公司的股票,你最多只会赔掉投进去的钱,所以这叫做有限责任

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Yet corporations have a right that real people do not: limited liability.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There's no liability attaching to him.

他不用承担任何责任。

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The committee will not set out to apportion blame or consider issues of civil or criminal liability,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

There is a general partner who takes on the liability and the limited partners, who are many, are the participants who do not share the liability.

由普通合伙人承担责任,而其他多个有限合伙人,则不需要承担责任

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"To sell or transfer the assets or liability of the institution in question.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The general partner takes on the liability; the limited partners don't have liability.

普通合伙人要承担责任,有限合伙人则不需要承担责任

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The bill,which now goes to the Senate, would remove a $75 million limit on liability for oil spill damages and put a new tax on the industry to fund nationwide conservation projects.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

The problem with partnerships, generally, has been that they don't have limited liability.

通常合伙制企业的问题是,合伙人具有无限责任

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Critics and opposition parties say the government must draw lessons from the Bhopal disaster and modify the controversial Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill to ensure that India will be able to hold private companies responsible for any mishap.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The SIV really was a liability but it wasn't visible to investors investing in the bank.

结构投资公司本身就是债务,但银行的投资者们并不了解这点

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It might include risks, as well, of personal liability if someone injures themselves on your property or risks of storms, of hurricanes, earthquakes, everything else; so we call it homeowners' insurance.

其中可能包括他人,在你家里受伤而引起的个人责任风险,或者住宅遭遇暴风雨,飓风,地震,或其他灾害的风险,所以我们称其为住宅保险

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If they awarded options that were "In the money" -that means already exercisable at profit -then they would be subject to a tax liability immediately, so they don't want to do that.

如果这些奖励的股票期权是价内期权,这说明期权行权即可赢利,这些利润是要交税的,当然他们想避免交税

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