The phrase "account for failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing reasons or explanations for a failure in a particular context, such as a project, task, or event.
Example: "The team needs to account for failure in their analysis to understand what went wrong during the project."
Alternatives: "explain the failure" or "justify the failure".
"Citizens have to be able to take their own governments to account for failure to uphold commitments they have entered into," Steiner said.
Back in Rio's Tribunal de Justiça, Achim Steiner, Unep's executive director, had stressed on the opening day that: "Citizens have to be able to take their own governments to account for failure to uphold commitments they have entered into".
His time may not be ending gloriously but it is difficult to hold Mr Blair to account for failure in a region where very few international diplomats have succeeded.
In contrast to a great deal of the diversity literature, the percentage of female faculty in departments did not correlate, in this study, with production of female Ph.D.s, but small numbers may account for failure to find a trend, the authors note.
The failed segment of the road pavement on which VES 26 and VES 29 data were acquired, is composed of thin topsoil with mean resistivity and thickness of 91 Ωm and 0.9 m which indicates clay material and possibly account for failure of the road pavement segment.
Now that "financial engineering" dominates one of our largest industries, policy-makers should adopt another fundamental engineering practice -- systems solutions that account for failure mechanisms, as the only way to design systems that are robust, practical and safe.
He is a British citizen and it is time the British Government held Interpol to account for failures such as were exposed in Spain last week".
Modelers must also account for failures in the network backbone problems resulting from software glitches, fiber-optic cables that get cut by construction projects, or hackers launching denial-of-service attacks.
The action that TI would like to see is the setting up of strong, well-resourced AML supervision across sectors, transparent enforcement to deter non-compliance, and for individuals to be held to account for failures.
The PAC already had the welfare-to-work contractor A4E in its sights and will soon recall the new head of HMRC, Lin Homer, to account for failures at the UK Border Agency which she used to run.
This may account for failures in time-sharing between competing activities, since the human cognitive effort is limited.
