Sentence examples for accountable for failures from inspiring English sources
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.
"Mr. Vargas's performance highlights a larger issue we have been working to address through our Special Enforcement Plan, which holds architects and engineers who fail to sign off on construction responsible and accountable for failures," Commissioner Lancaster said.
Conversely, employees need to know that their bosses — and the company overall — will be held accountable for failures.
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.
