Because of its short duration, the project cannot be held to expectations of influencing behavioural risk, but in terms of meeting its primary objective, it has been successful.
However, despite the tribunal ruling O'Reilly found the Edinburgh panel stacked against her with the prevailing argument that broadcasters cannot be held hostage to having to employ older presenters as a result.
They have given every appearance of understanding that science, in contrast to political careers, cannot easily be held to the exigences of a five-year electoral cycle.
Then there are the "Dreamers," undocumented American residents who came to the United States as children and who therefore cannot be held accountable for having arrived without papers.
Partnerships do have the mandate and cannot be held accountable to synchronize their activities with emerging processes within countries aimed at developing their health systems.
Although there is no doubt that a congressional committee can compel the attendance of witnesses, a witness who has refused to testify or to answer a question cannot be held in contempt unless it has been made clear to him that his refusal will be treated as contumacious.
For example, if a police officer conducts a search of someone's vehicle in a way that is later found to be unconstitutional, he cannot be held personally liable if he has no way to know the action would later be ruled unconstitutional.
As Dr Jonathan Eyal of RUSI argues, Syria is party to none of the relevant conventions banning the use chemical weapons; so from a legal perspective "cannot be held responsible for obligations it has never accepted".
If local schools do not have the freedom to change, they cannot be held accountable for failing to change.
