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How to use the word Account in a Sentence? Page #33

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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That's the objective. Clearly we need to take into account the markets, but we are confident.

Pier Carlo Padoan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Earlier I never had a bank account because I was never able to make any savings.

Nur Islam

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Although the FCA is not penalising Burrows for not informing his employer, the FCA has taken this into account, amongst other things, in deciding what action to take.

The FCA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Those who prepare dossiers against the prime minister of a government ... who came to power with the national will shall give account before the people and history.

Fetullah Gulen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced.

Rolling Stone

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have gone into their lairs and we will go into them again. Whoever is beside them and behind them, we will bring down this network and bring it to account.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values, but making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

Thomas Pickering

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced, we were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.

Rolling Stone

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.

Rolling Stone

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced, we were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account.

Editor Will Dana

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in (the woman's) account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced.

Rolling Stone

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The guiding principle was pair-bonding with a man and to be even more specific, to make sure that I possessed a proper vessel for an erect penis, the end goal wasn't that I would be a sexually satisfied woman, or a person who was curious about other forms of sexuality. ... Jim Ambrose personal sexual pleasure wasn't taken into account.

Jim Ambrose

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I doubt that people born today are ever going to have a bank account the same way you and I have a bank account, i think we're going to see the banking world completely transform.

Soul Htite

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If we take into account the same pattern of water extraction and rainfall that we’ve seen so far this month – and it’s been raining less than half of the average – we can say the (reserve) will last up to 60 days.

Marussia Whately

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are confident that no court of equity would let Vista and Goldman enjoy windfalls on account of a reckless share count error while Tibco's shareholders needlessly suffer the loss of $100 million of the value of their company.

Mark Lebovitch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You know that certain deals are no longer possible, it is a reality that we need to take into account.

Carl Vanden Bussche

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is also important to make decisions taking into account Japanese and U.S. monetary policy.

Chen Yulu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Of course Moana, being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, has documentary value.

John Grierson

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I'd rather be with a woman who has things in common with me and is intelligent than a brainless, self centered trophy who is only concerned about where her next pair of Manolo Blahnik's are coming from and how much money she can take from your bank account.

Andrew Michaels

added by RexGunning
9 years ago

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

Jean de La Bruyère

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Lionel Trilling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Isaac Asimov

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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