The phrase "accountable ruling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing decisions or judgments that are subject to accountability or oversight, often in legal or governance settings.
Example: "The committee emphasized the importance of accountable ruling to ensure transparency in the decision-making process."
Alternatives: "responsible decision" or "answerable judgment".
It is, canonically, for judges to "say what the law is," but judges speaking the law must be held accountable if their rulings stray too far from the opinions of the people who authorize the judiciary to exercise this power.
They will also lose the credibility they gained while holding the ruling elite accountable by applying external pressure.
To its credit, Yale is internationalising its student body and broadening Americans' horizons, but what are we doing to keep America's great crucibles of civic-republican leadership from morphing into career factories and cultural gallerias for a global ruling class accountable to no polity or moral code?
If there were stronger labor unions and a highly developed network of citizens' organizations exerting pressure on politicians, there would be a fighting chance for poor and middle class people to hold the ruling elites accountable.
The Supreme Court effectively ended efforts to hold the former dictator Augusto Pinochet accountable for rights abuses by ruling that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial.
In the Catholic model of governance at its best, the ruling class is accountable to the Gospel and exercises authority humbly and lovingly, with a listening ear and a view to consensus, though the institutional structures do not require this.
Brazen stuff from one of the least accountable people in the country's ruling class.
Reliant on foreign nations' largesse and accountable to their judgment, the narrow ruling class became more responsive to external demands than to domestic aspirations.
"It's the first time in this whole case that he's been held accountable -- and it's a legal ruling, not a political decision," said John W. Whitehead, president of the Virginia-based Ruthelpedd Institute, which helped finance the Jones lawsuit.
The Metro Unit, consisting of around 600 members, is accountable to the city, thus the ruling provincial government, the Democratic Alliance (DA).
