Example sentences of "hold accountable [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There is the view that the party leadership in parliament should lack autonomy and should be held accountable to the party rank and file outside of parliament .
2 All supervising officers , including senior divisional managers — chief superintendents — ‘ should not only hold themselves accountable , but be actively held accountable for the overall level of their subordinates ’ .
3 Both the leaseholder and the federal land manager , it was agreed , should be held accountable for the condition of the rangeland .
4 individual managers can be held accountable for the profitability of individual products ;
5 Your specific tasks within that given work are assigned to you by a person called your manager ( or boss or supervisor ) , who ought to be held accountable for the work you do .
6 Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland .
7 Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . "
8 This angered opposition groups , who asserted that Suchinda and his supporters should be held accountable for the killings .
9 Unwillingness to stand out has its roots in village life , where a community could be held accountable for the actions of one of its members .
10 However often he and his ministers warned the population not to expect an overnight return to prewar prosperity , the head of the government was naturally held accountable for the persistence of food and fuel shortages , black marketeering , and bread rationing .
11 Nevertheless it was the King 's ministers , the argument ran , who should be held accountable for the misdeeds of the Crown , not the King himself .
12 " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) .
13 I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’
14 This states that , where a player commits an act of foul play which has not been detected by the match officials , that player 's union has the discretion to cite that player to show cause why he should not be held accountable in the same way as a player who has been ordered off the field of play .
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