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Example sentences for: accountable

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Through not more than one authorizing committee and one appropriating subcommittee in each house, Congress should be able to ask the secretary of homeland security whether he or she has the resources to provide reasonable security against major terrorist acts within the United States and to hold the secretary accountable for the department's performance.
If the public isn't holding its leaders accountable, the press is the only institution that can spur it to do so.
Before prison reforms of the early 1980s, the prisons were run mostly by prisoners who were strictly accountable to strategically scattered guards, comparatively few in number.
The United States had warned the Taliban that they would be held accountable for further attacks by Bin Ladin against Afghanistan's U.S. interests.
After famously "taking responsibility" for the botched FBI raid in Waco in 1993, she was lionized for her refreshing readiness to be held accountable.