Meanwhile, the Syrian regime and President Bashar al-Assad have interpreted the self-imposed restrictions of the U.S. president - in addition to restrictions the U.S. congress imposed on any military operation during its deliberations - to mean that the regime is safe and that the United States does not want to hold it accountable, let alone remove it or even weaken it.
"Pastors should be held accountable to God alone for what they say behind the pulpit, not the I.R.S.," he said.
Should his advisers share the blame for his unprecedented record of untruths or is the President alone accountable?
I needed an unrelenting work ethic, because I was accountable to myself alone.
Yet the Obama administration and most of our states are holding teachers alone accountable for student test scores.
On the other hand, there is little opportunity to hold accountable private providers working alone.
Retailers say long supply chains make it hard to know what is going on, let alone be accountable for it.
But Queen understands that the nature of her boat-bound sport means that she alone is accountable for victories and losses.
The survivors are in a state of "terrible confusion", torn between the world of the living and the dead, for whom they alone are accountable, sharing the same condition.
The conclusion of the American investigation was that, while the US commanders had correctly delegated their responsibilities, in the end, they alone were accountable.
The economy is predominantly run by powerful entities close to the country's Supreme Leader, the security forces and the military, some of whom are hardly accountable to anyone, let alone the judiciary.
