| 单词 | accountable |
| 释义 | accountable (əkaʊntəbəl ) adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you are accountable to someone for something that you do, you are responsible for it and must be prepared to justify your actions to that person. Public officials can finally be held accountable for their actions. [+ for] The major service industries should be accountable to their customers. Synonyms: answerable, subject, responsible, obliged accountability (əkaʊntəbɪlɪti ) uncountable noun ...an impetus towards democracy and greater accountability. Synonyms: responsibility, liability, culpability, answerability Collocations: accountable government These include an independent judiciary, accountable government, an innovative corporate culture and watertight property rights. Times, Sunday Times We love our country because, despite all its faults, it can claim to have led the world in establishing parliamentary democracy and accountable government. Times, Sunday Times He argues that accountable government and the rule of law succeeded primarily in societies that had a politically powerful source of moral law independent of sovereignty. The Times Literary Supplement Some dreamed of accountable government with our own laws made in our own land. The Sun An accountable government, one that tried to convince on the basis of evidence, would answer them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But he defended the new role and said that voters would in time come to see the merits of having a democratically accountable police chief. Times, Sunday Times And, since the judgments they are making are unavoidably political, we need to ask whether we want a more democratically accountable hand on the tiller. Times, Sunday Times He should set out the democratic principle that the authority to pass laws should be democratically accountable to those who are affected by them. Times, Sunday Times Medical research, universities and museums all deserve secure funding allocated on rational principles by democratically accountable leaders. Times, Sunday Times Education was re-organized as a democratically accountable public service, nationally directed but locally administered. The Times Literary Supplement By making officials directly accountable to their communities. Times, Sunday Times In return, they would be directly accountable to the local community through a single elected police commissioner. Times, Sunday Times And he was not even directly accountable to investors. Times, Sunday Times Our politicians are not directly accountable to us all the time. Times, Sunday Times It will be a public body directly accountable to ministers. Times, Sunday Times He delegates certain powers to his immediate subordinates, and they are fully accountable. Christianity Today The buyout firms say that they are fully accountable to the only people who matter - their investors. Times, Sunday Times But he must also be fully accountable and a democracy must be able to know the rules of engagement. Times, Sunday Times He promised to 'hold fully accountable anyone responsible'. The Sun Ministers must be made fully accountable for their departments and alongside them should be their civil servants. Times, Sunday Times In recent years, a number of lawsuits have attempted to hold denominational agencies legally accountable for the acts of ministers that they ordain or license. Christianity Today Can they be legally accountable for bad investments? Christianity Today Social media companies are already morally accountable for allowing it, and must be held legally accountable, too. Times, Sunday Times Church officers and directors may be legally accountable for violating the terms or restrictions of properties and funds held in trust by the church. Christianity Today They may not be legally accountable but are morally responsible. The Sun The current officials to whom we speak want civil servants to be personally accountable for performance and value for money. Times, Sunday Times Every executive was personally accountable for achieving the targets set. The Sun Senior executives in banks should also be held personally accountable for mis-selling and poor conduct, with stronger criminal sanctions and more effective clawback of bonuses. Times, Sunday Times Standards in the financial sector will only improve when bankers are made personally accountable for their decisions. Times, Sunday Times Yes, publicly owned and publicly accountable: that's the way forward for our banks. Times, Sunday Times The case has prompted an outcry from campaigners who want the family courts to be more publicly accountable. Times, Sunday Times Bad enough at times when the corporation was overseen by its governors, who actually struck me as more publicly accountable, but it has proved worse with the trustees. Times, Sunday Times It would be the first time senior executives are held publicly accountable for nuisance calls. The Sun This prevented him from being publicly accountable for the release of his mistress and future wife. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 负责 Japanese: 説明する責任がある |
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