The phrase "accountable officials" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals in positions of authority who are responsible for their actions and decisions, often in a governmental or organizational context.
Example: "The report highlighted the need for accountable officials to ensure transparency in the budgeting process."
Alternatives: "responsible authorities" or "liable officials".
This passage from Brown was not meant to transfer from politically accountable officials to the courts the decision as to which among reasonable alternative law enforcement techniques should be employed to deal with a serious public danger.
It depends on the willingness of accountable officials like Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Marc Racicot, his Republican counterpart, to honor both the letter and the spirit of the law.
This balancing factor -- which Brown actually describes as "the degree to which the seizure advances the public interest" -- was not meant to transfer from politically accountable officials to the courts the choice as to which among reasonable alternative law enforcement techniques should be employed to deal with a serious public danger.
In some contexts, however, narrow rulings are indeed preferable, in large part because they give flexibility to politically accountable officials.
"There has been no serious effort to investigate and hold accountable officials for deaths in custody, unlawful detention, torture and other systematic human rights abuses during the Mubarak era," Human Rights Watch said in a report on the trial.
Mr. El-Erian was referring to divisions over the drafting of a new constitution and the judiciary's failure to hold accountable officials responsible for the death of protesters during last year's anti-Mubarak protests.
That money should be allocated through a single accountable official.
was the result of fault or negligence on the part of that departmental accountable official.
Any employee or member who is so designated may be referred to as a "departmental accountable official".
Representative Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is shopping around legislation that seems a good start toward putting the intelligence agencies under one responsible and accountable official.
Notwithstanding section 1306 of this title, a check drawn on a designated depositary may be paid in the currency of a foreign country when the appropriate accountable official authorizes payment in that currency.
