Typically, the addressee will hold the speaker accountable for the correctness of the assertion, and the speaker accept to be held so accountable.
In the "Star Wars" realm, various reasons have been produced for this weird amnesia, though the actual reason is obviously that George Lucas hadn't entirely figured out the backstory when he wrote that first movie, or known that he'd ever be held so tightly accountable for its details.
But because prosecutors are so rarely held accountable for their misconduct, the sentence is remarkable nonetheless.
SCRIPT -- Mr. Bush: "I believe we need to encourage personal responsibility so people are accountable for their actions.
"I believe we need to encourage personal responsibility so people are accountable for their actions," Mr. Bush says in the 30-second spot.
Winslow added that he did not take any supplements that list ingredients banned by the league, "but the N.F.L. policy is very strict, so I am accountable for the results".
These are the reactions of a society in which men are so rarely held accountable for their heinous actions that even a violent gun death is seen as a workable alternative to actual justice.
This project holds these so-called 'pundits' accountable for the extreme anti-LGBT rhetoric they continue to spread".
Your company hired a not-so-responsible person who naturally incurs extra expenses (so the business is accountable for those costs).
So North Carolina holds schools accountable for growth of the same students: from last year's third grade, for example, to this year's fourth.
