Sentence examples similar to grasped accountability from inspiring English sources

The notion of an international criminal tribunal was put forward by some members of the UNSC sincerely, but most of the big powers only grasped it to avoid accountability for having failed Bosnia & Herzegovina and its people and the call for a more resolute response.

Nor does he seem to grasp that democratic accountability functions at every level of the government.

Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding forms of experimentation.

Accountability is crucial to that confidence — something the nation's founders grasped, even if Mr. Trump does not.

Ed Miliband grasped this point.

He grasped the time.

She grasped for words.

Grasped a difficult concept?

But the president seems unable to grasp that Americans want more than accountability for the wholesale surveillance of our online lives.

Senators demanded transparency, accountability, and support for new legislation from the Facebook C.E.O., but few seemed to grasp the existential questions at hand.

So, I was grasping at straws when I attended a meeting where history teachers evaluated the quality of the new accountability tests.