Sentence examples for exercise the accountability from inspiring English sources

These markets can now exercise the accountability functions associated with citizenship: they can vote governments' economic policies in or out, they can force governments to take certain measures and not others' (Sassen 2003: 70; see generally Schrecker 2009).

But how many such model citizens take advantage of these resources to exercise the popular sovereignty and democratic accountability at the core of our democracy?

Normative statements often have limited impact on the ability of poor communities to get themselves recognized as genuine 'rights holders' and to be able to exercise the rights or claim state accountability for ensuring them.

Citizens may also influence system development through their electoral voting power, exercising the 'long route' to accountability.

"Without the ability to exercise real accountability, real choice, this testing is nonsense".

I find that the EIA itself becomes an object of controversy: it fails to legitimate projects, as in the gold mine and the Patagonian dams, and it fails to exercise accountability, as with the black-neck swans and salmon.

He called on the Guardian to "exercise its own accountability" over the stories.

But it does seem to me that regardless of any action that is taken by government, it is incumbent on the press, the Guardian in this context, to exercise its own accountability for the decisions that they have made.

Maybe the board of elves should step up and exercise some accountability.

In the Internet, as we know it today, it is very hard to exercise accountability.

Once the state has deliberately created space for power to be exercised without accountability those who occupy that space will protect it against enemies domestic and foreign.