The phrase "authority accountable" is not correct as it stands and may need rephrasing for clarity in written English.
You can use it when discussing the need for those in positions of power to be responsible for their actions, but it should be part of a larger, clearer context.
Example: "It is essential for the government to ensure that authority is accountable to the citizens it serves."
Alternatives: "responsible authority" or "accountable leadership".
There was a time not long ago when newscasters like Keith Olbermann would question and hold authority accountable.
Once reported, we have a right to hold those people in a position of authority accountable, and to demand that they take concrete steps to rectify the problem.
4) Ensure clarity on how the RACI is intended to work, then role-play real decisions and scenarios to help leaders understand how to lead successfully in the matrix whether they are the approving authority, accountable for driving decisions and results, responsible for the work, consulted or informed.
Mrs. Barker said her family's goal is to hold Mr. Scheetz and Las Vegas authorities accountable.
Political will is needed to hold state corrections authorities accountable for criminal violence carried out in state institutions.
Successive Italian governments denied all knowledge of the case and consistently ruled out extradition,and the judges appeared intent on holding US authorities accountable.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Vote Leave campaign, said: "Decisions about how we regulate UK businesses should be taken by UK authorities accountable to UK consumers and electors.
"There has been a growing trend of 'criminalization' of irregular migration in Europe," the organization said as it launched an online petition urging the European Parliament to hold authorities accountable for their treatment of migrants.
Holding authorities accountable on key measures of local nuisance, including graffiti, litter, drug use and loitering teenagers seems simplistic and inadequate as a solution to social problems that have persisted for generations.
In Africa, many countries are constantly imposing new restrictions on what civil society groups can do and say, and using extrajudicial intimidation and infiltration to hobble any efforts to hold authorities accountable.
It said Tehran was suffocating because "we [the media] are not able to hold the authorities accountable", "you are not switching off your cars" and "they [officials] are only capable of closing schools".
