"exacting accountability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when talking about holding someone responsible for their actions or decisions, especially in a strict or demanding manner. Example: The CEO promised to take strict measures and start exacting accountability from the employees who were responsible for the company's financial loss.
If peacekeeping operations and the budget continue to grow, as they did last year, then the need for more exacting accountability mechanisms becomes ever more acute.
LONDON — To many in Britain, the prosecutors' decision on Tuesday to lay criminal charges against eight of the most prominent figures in British tabloid journalism over the past decade was a dramatic step toward exacting accountability for the tangled web of wrongdoing in Rupert Murdoch's London newsrooms.
Local authorities have diminishing powers to intervene, and the pressure of more exacting accountability measures (often with dire consequences for heads whose schools can't meet them) means the temptation to admit the easiest and reject the hardest to teach is unparalleled.
Most cabinet meetings were chaired by Mbeki, who was always the better manager, but he, Madiba, nevertheless asserted his presence, his authority, and he certainly exacted accountability for what went on in government.
Although viewed by the opposition as an attempt to destabilize the Court, the impeachment process is nevertheless a legal and constitutional remedy that aims to exact accountability for possible abuses committed by those in the High Tribunal.
I also hope there will be more effort to understand what information communities and local groups need to improve their own situations and exact more accountability and better governance from aid agencies, governments, service providers and the private sector.
He was exacting and demanded accountability, but he was also decent and gentle, adored and respected by the family, at work and in the community.
"At the same exact time as accountability and transparency seem to be the total watchword for how are we spending these dollars in an austerity-ridden environment," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, "there's absolutely no accountability with vouchers".
And even though prosecutors last month decided not to try and re-convict him after the Connecticut Supreme Court said he deserved a new trial, they still seem to think he's guilty and refuse to admit they were wrong, a testament to a glaring lack of accountability exacted on prosecutors across America.
"We have no transparency, no exact monetary figures, no accountability," Riad Seif, a burly Parliament member with salt-and-pepper hair, bellowed into the microphone to cheers from the crowd.
It's very, very loyal without exacting much in terms of accountability.
