"Who is accountable for failure?
It is a bureaucratic, risk-averse behemoth that rarely holds its managers accountable for failure.
Senator Phil Gramm, Republican of Texas, said that the resolution held no one accountable for failure and that that was not something America wanted.
Some, like Rosie Saldivar of Houston, complained that the bishops who voted to remove from priestly duties a priest accused of even one act of sexual abuse did not adopt a policy to hold themselves and other church leaders accountable for failure to keep abusive priests from coming into contact with more children.
The jurisprudence that is emerging from the European Court of Human Rights and United Nations treaty bodies is a tool that can be used to render African governments accountable for failure to implement domestic abortion laws.
And even when Friedman admits that Republicans are more to blame for the lack of compromise, he makes up for it by somehow simultaneously claiming that "history" will hold Obama more accountable for failure to reach a deal.
Although external partners are involved in the coordination process, it is the government which is ultimately held accountable for failure or success in the implementation of the annual health sector action plans.
The strength of human rights lies in its empowerment of people to claim their rights and to hold duty bearers accountable for failures but this requires the political will to develop robust accountability mechanisms [ 37].
Under the "senior managers regime", senior executives across the financial services sector will be held accountable for failures under their watch under new rules.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates did the right thing by holding the Air Force secretary and chief of staff accountable for failures to secure American nuclear weapons properly.
The church, whose investment arm owns shares in the News Corporation, sent a letter to Rupert Murdoch on Friday asking for senior executives to be held accountable for failures at The News of the World newspaper.
