Sentence examples for properly be held from inspiring English sources

Suppose one holds instead that justice requires an equal distribution of benefits and burdens among the members of society, except when inequality arises in a way for which the person who ends up with less should properly be held responsible (Cohen 2008).

For us, it would be unthinkable for the state to authorise the killing of another unarmed person, who appears to be posing no immediate threat, without that officer properly being held to account for his or her actions.

If they don't do it properly, they can be held liable for wrongdoing even if they weren't personally involved.

Occasionally a runner who is a better athlete than others, or who has sharper eyes, will realize that after all the changes the baton is no longer working properly, can't be held in the hand comfortably.

Hillier said: "The government must be held properly to account for its decisions and use of public money.

He demanded that June's general elections be held properly (Albanian election results are always disputed) and that recent nationalist rhetoric be curbed.

Cameron will say: "Professionals who fail to protect children will be held properly accountable and council bosses who preside over such catastrophic failure will not see rewards for that failure".

"We need a change in the law to ensure that incompetent bankers can be held properly accountable for the harm they can cause - and if George Osborne does not amend the Financial Regulation Bill to introduce the concept of 'strict liability' for bank directors, then we will do so".

If the available research is utilized properly, the nurses can be held accountable for their action in daily practice.

It is seen, for example, to be the "sine qua non of a high-performing healthcare system" ([ 6] p.23), "clearly the first step in improving the quality of care" ([ 7] p.613) and "a necessary condition if the health system is to be held properly to account by citizens and patients" ([ 8] p. 675).

"Without the end sheets, the book would not be held together properly and would fall apart," Mrs. Barsky said.