Banks, insurers and ratings agencies all screwed up magnificently, but no one was indicted or held accountable.
An aggressive campaign could recruit 26, 000 new teachers in-state and from across the country in very short order from teachers who are desperate to find work, and who will not mind working longer days or being held accountable for student test scores.
When a scientist reports something later proven wrong, he or she is held accountable by peer review and the sharp opinions of competing researchers.
Four people have already, in one way or another, been held accountable -- fairly senior people.
We expect those who are ineffective or corrupt to be held accountable.
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There are those advanced nations who think that developing countries either cannot absorb this assistance, or that will not be held accountable effectively, and that the world's fastest-growing emitters should bear a greater share of the burden.
Those responsible must be held accountable and resign or be terminated for their actions.
And those who target the innocent -- be they civilians, aid workers or peacekeepers -- must be held accountable.
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Clinton and Gore should be under no illusion: Whether fairly or not, they will be held accountable if, as a result of a failure to ensure that both the public and private sectors are induced to take corrective action on the Millennium Bug -- and helped to acquire the means to do so -- a long-predicted, well-understood and utterly avoidable cataclysm befalls the Nation, its people and interests.
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"Whoever paid for this weapon in Qatar or any other country and whoever brought this weapon to be used in Syria must be held accountable, whoever they are, a king or a prince, a president or a minister, " he said.
Every one who is a member of that support network is placing himself or herself at great risk of being held accountable in a very serious way.
Mr Yeltsin's sack-the-government tactics smack of a deal provoked by such shadowy figures, who do not want Russia's new capitalists to be held accountable for their actions or their deals to be made transparent.
We disagreed over whether insurance companies should be held accountable when they deny people care or arbitrarily raise premiums.
Critics have loudly complained that Wall Street has not been held criminally accountable for the financial crisis or been subject to sufficient regulatory scrutiny.
"We need to have a situation where people who run and own care organisations, in the public, private or voluntary sector, know that they will be held accountable for the services they provide and that there will be consequences for those who fail in their duties of oversight, " said Norman Lamb, who took over Mr Burstow's government role.
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Others may be held accountable for treating pregnant staff members with hostility or for refusing to let them work.
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When companies break the law or produce a defective product, they should, and are, held accountable.
Or it can create a climate in which individuals and institutions are held accountable.
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Clearly banks need to be held accountable by regulators and policymakers, and if there were shoddy or fraudulent foreclosure practices then that needs to be addressed.
And a new management structure, in which each manager is held accountable for a specific area of the operation, such as the kitchen or service, is expected to improve the customer experience, according to franchisees.
Congress would specify the total budget for which it is willing to be held accountable and divide it among agencies roughly in proportion to potential lives saved or some other metric for what is regarded as a regulatory benefit.
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