Sentence examples for term accountability from inspiring English sources

In DfID's project to reform Congo's police force, "the original design of the programme revealed limited understanding of how police institutions operate in a French/Belgian model; and a key term – accountability – had no direct French translation and meant little to Congolese stakeholders," the report said.

While the term "accountability" may be ubiquitous in modern education law, it was novel at the time.

In the language of governance, the term accountability has two dimensions, answerability, when someone is obliged to explain their actions or decisions, and enforceability, when sanctions or punishments can be applied in case the answers are not satisfactory.

Public-sector adhocracies are not common, partly because of the emphasis placed on short-term accountability by political leaders.

Lenders who earned commissions had an incentive to make loans -- and little long-term accountability, since the mortgages were resold.

When it came to A.I.G., however, Feinberg's push for long-term accountability was met with what Feinberg calls "intense pressure" from officials at the Treasury Department and from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which had provided most of the A.I.G. bailout, to make accommodations for the firms whose perceived extravagance had created his job in the first place.

It's clear that the $400bn we have offered the government will be enough to deal with the next year or so, but it would be better to put in place long-term accountability mechanisms to deal with this once and for all.

An area of research, sometimes termed "accountability," aims to quantify these benefits, and sometimes costs, to understand the true impact of regulatory actions.

One is what Mr Kendall delicately terms "accountability lapses": non-profits tend to reflect the interests of many different groups, but those of the consumer often come low on the list.

The obscene profits, the complete lack of long-term accountability, the whole bubble of Wall Street is justifiable and must be maintained.

In conceptual terms, accountability is "a strategy for managing expectations" [ 31].