Sentence examples for render an account from inspiring English sources
I was an envoy, engaged to render an account, to transmit, relate.
After all, he claims he has come back voluntarily (pre-empting an extradition request) "not to settle accounts but to render an account", and with no wish to "harm the president of the republic .The trouble is, even the smallest change could lead to defeat for Mr Chirac and victory for Mr Jospin.
What is virtue?—and then twisted words to dismantle any opinion offered.In Xenophon's "Memorabilia", a man named Hippias refuses to debate Socrates: "You mock at others, questioning and examining everybody, and never willing to render an account yourself or to state an opinion about anything," he says.
Mr Jospin lamely explained to parliament this week that he thought it was no one else's business: having ideas and freedom of thought go together, "and I didn't see why I should have to render an account".Perhaps the voters will agree, not least because the popular assumption is that all politicians lie.
As soon as Demosthenes came of age in 366 BC, he demanded they render an account of their management.
James' mother was very tender with him as a consequence of delicate health, yet she required him to render an account of all his actions and words while absent from her.
"Nothing is required of you," he observes, "yet all must render an accounting".
He immediately made every effort to end all the disputes between the Revolutionary parties, but his policy of conciliation was thwarted by the Gironde, which demanded that he render an accounting when he left his post as minister of justice.
FORBES, however, does not let us columnists off so easily, and we must render an accounting.
In doing that, he renders an account of Guantánamo that is unlike anything we have seen before, one where humour and unexpected kindnesses exist alongside dumbfounding degradations and brutalities".
In taking an impossibly complex subject and rendering an account for the ordinary reader, it has inspired a generation of accessible science writing as well as, perhaps, the popularising work of writers such as Malcolm Gladwell (Blink; Outliers) and Michael Lewis (The New New Thing).
