If city leaders were more accountable to their residents, they might favor projects designed to help them more.

如果城市领导人对他们的居民更负责，他们可能会更喜欢那些旨在帮助其居民的项目。

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If city leaders were more accountable to their residents, they might favour projects designed to help them more.

如果城市领导人对他们的居民更负责的话，他们可能会更支持那些旨在帮助居民的项目。

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As a result, businesses are much more accountable, often in very specific ways, which creates powerful incentives to improve service.

其结果是，企业往往以非常具体的方式变得更加可靠，这就产生了改善服务的强大内在动力。

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He also touted his more popular effort to reform the nation's financial industry and hold bank executives more accountable.

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But we have to hold them much more accountable."

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"We are not backing away. We are going full steam ahead with our programs in Iran and across the region,again in order to create that space for civil societies to actually play the proper role that we would all understand in building more accountable democratic governing institutions,".

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Families of September 11 victims want the airlines to be more accountable for security.

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But in Washington, they have fought efforts to make them more accountable in disasters.

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They have proved bolder, more original and more accountable than appointed council leaders tend to be.

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