Sentence examples for official accountability from inspiring English sources

It seemed a rare moment of transparency and official accountability.

Criminal prosecutions are both unlikely and unnecessary, but some form of official accountability is essential.

Saudi critics also pointed to a lack of civic awareness and official accountability.

But Mr. Xi has come to power at a time when such strains are especially acute, and the pressure of public expectations for greater official accountability is growing, amplified by millions of participants in online forums.

Some reform advocates see some signs of hope in the government's vow to overhaul "re-education through labor," which is used to jail citizens without trials, and some point to Mr. Xi's own promises of greater official accountability.

While they have at times pushed for more official accountability as in the Kabul Bank corruption scandal, in which some members of Mr. Karzai's family and inner circle have been implicated, in other areas they have backed off.

But he singled out no officials for accountability.

TRIPOLI, LIBYA — When I first met Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, now the chairman of Libya's Transitional National Council, in April 2009, he was the beleaguered justice minister in Muammar el-Qaddafi's Libya, virtually the sole brave voice among senior officials demanding accountability from the country's security services.

The Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday on the use of the material witness statute in combating terrorists was a victory for former Attorney General John Ashcroft and those who would shield Bush administration officials from accountability for their actions after Sept. 11, 2001.

We have had recent reminders of this dismaying retreat from Mr. Obama's passionate campaign promises to make a break with Mr. Bush's abuses of power, a shift that denies justice to the victims of wayward government policies and shields officials from accountability.

In those forums, a new culture of questioning official truths, demanding accountability and airing abuses is forming.