"I feel a responsibility," said the man who has also succeeded so wonderfully over the past 12 months in being accountable, first and foremost, to himself.
Angry citizens have discovered all too often that their governments are accountable first and foremost to international financiers, and policies agreed in secret have led to massive social unrest when the details become known.
We must do this first and foremost by holding ourselves accountable for what we say.
We must first and foremost hold ourselves and others accountable.
To the notion that voters may have sent a message for smaller, less costly, more accountable government, Mr. Obama responded, "First and foremost, they want jobs and economic growth in this country".
Yes athletic administrators are more revenue-driven, but their bottom line is the graduate student-athletes first and foremost, and so they will be held accountable for that above all else.
Attention has focused on reforming existing institutional arrangements so that they are more effective, foremost, but also more representative, transparent and accountable [ 62, 63, 75, 109- 112].
First and foremost, we are focusing resources on high-risk probation clients, building on their strengths through incentives and holding them accountable with graduated sanctions.
Dr. Kristal is recognized as the foremost expert on placentophagia (consuming one's own placenta) and he points out that hospitals don't want to be accountable for the effects of placenta encapsulation, especially since there aren't any scientific studies on the effects of placenta encapsulation.
We are, first and foremost, journalists, and the teams and organizations we cover are multimillion-dollar businesses; holding those entities and the people within them accountable for their actions is our primary function.
