Sentence examples for on its accountability from inspiring English sources

Whether defined in terms of a system representing the will of the people, or as one of divided powers exercising checks and balances, our government claims legitimacy based on its accountability.

One positive outcome of last week's meeting was that everyone seemed to acknowledge that Icann needs to work on its accountability.

The categories are based on the state's own system of evaluating schools based on its accountability system.

In the wake of the recent clutch of hospital and care home scandals, the government may decide to pick up the draft bill recently drafted by the Law Commission on the Regulation of Health and Social Care Professionals, either for actual legislation or, as predicted in the health committee's report on its accountability hearing with the General Medical Council pre-legislative scrutiny.

Alan Davidson, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a public interest group in Washington, said that although the overhaul plan was somewhat improved from earlier versions, "it is still lacking in checks on Icann's power and its accountability to the public".

While the Bush administration had the Fox television series 24 as a weekly reminder that torture keeps us safe, the current administration, bent on its no-accountability policy, has Bigelow's film on its side.

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations was hit with a double dose of scrutiny over its accountability practices on Wednesday, charged in a lawsuit with gross negligence in Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic, and accused by an anticorruption organization of oversight lapses in its own peacekeeping operations around the world.

"One school, serving students similar to Woodson's, lags behind 29 countries in math but received an A on its state's accountability system based primarily on that state's own test," Schnur said.

He writes of a high school in California that did miserably on its district's "accountability dashboard," a series of gauges showing performance in grade-point averages, days of suspension, College Board scores and dropout rates.

The city's plan calls for placing the main burden of accountability on its more than 1,600 principals; it may place letters in their files or withhold money from their schools if they fail to provide the appropriate paperwork and services.

Christie was turning the traditional notion of political accountability on its head: not only was it not unprincipled to make a bunch of vague campaign promises that had almost no chance of becoming reality, but in fact it was also the only truly principled thing to do, because politicians never followed through on the details of their proposals, anyway.