31.   Others think his scowl is a fatal political liability, especially when telegenic political campaigns are all the rage in Mexico.

32.   Six months ago, it was supposed to be a political liability.

33.   Such claims are widely associated with the Watergate break-in and cover-ups of the Nixon administration and are, therefore, often considered a political liability.

34.   The adept and decisive manager can be imperious, to the point where surveys show his manner to be his greatest political liability.

35.   The mayor benefits by escaping the long-term political liability of a deal that shortchanged the city and reeked of political favoritism.

36.   The leave also reduces the political liability for high-ranking union officials closely connected to Carey.

37.   The principal victims were Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and his main antagonist, Anatoly Chubais, the market advocate who had become a political liability.

38.   The planes were considered less of an intelligence asset than a political liability.

39.   The Republican founder of the national Conservative Caucus was an ideologue before the word became an epithet, candid before consultants declared candor a political liability.

40.   The political liability might therefore have been exaggerated.