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How to use the word Accountability in a Sentence?

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We are quick to blame God for the chaos we create, forgetting that we hold the reins. Like two-headed vipers, we look for scapegoats, but the fault is in us. Our mess is of our making, and only through accountability can we find clarity and change.

Christen Kuikoua

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13 days ago

It’s great, we have another terrorist off the face of this earth. I’m good with that, but it doesn’t absolve the administration or the State Department or the Pentagon from taking responsibility or accountability for what happened. They haven’t stepped up and said we messed this up and it won’t happen again.

Darin Hoover

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As Secretary of Defense, I will also not hesitate to take any additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets, accordingly, I am directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to conduct a review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again.

Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The integrity of our institution was damaged in that moment. That damage continues to accumulate, and for that there must be accountability.

Arizona House Democrats

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of help that we have been receiving from the US, from President Biden, Congress on a strong bipartisan basis, is about security assistance – but also budget assistance, also financial support, also about accountability and transparency. This is something I know really well, and it’s very important, I think, to share this with our partners here.

Oksana Markarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While it may be too late for the survivors to see criminal justice served, we hope that exposing the Archdiocese’s transgressions to the fullest extent possible will bring some measure of accountability and perhaps encourage others to come forward.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is unacceptable that the Supreme Court has exempted itself from the accountability that applies to all other members of our federal courts, and I believe Congress should act to remedy this problem.

Chris Van Hollen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a loophole, a gap in accountability, when we talk about accountability for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, legally, currently, there is no international mechanism, which can investigate and prosecute the crime of aggression against Ukraine.

Anton Korynevych

Found on CNN
1 year ago

WHO is pressing for firm political commitment at the highest level, strong multisectoral collaboration including beyond health, and an effective accountability system. We need everyone – individuals, communities, societies, donors and governments – to do their part to end TB, together, yes, we can end TB.

Tereza Kasaeva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As I discussed with both sides during my visit, to build a durable peace, there must be acknowledgment of the atrocities committed by all parties, as well as accountability, together with reconciliation.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Failures of leadership and accountability have allowed unlawful conduct to continue unchecked, even when city and police leaders announced solutions, they failed to follow through. In LMPD, officer misconduct too often goes unnoticed and unaddressed. At times, LMPD leaders have endorsed and defended unlawful conduct.

The DOJ

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every single person who’s been victimized by Alex has wanted one thing: complete accountability. And complete accountability started here today with this jury verdict.

Justin Bamberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When accountability was at Alex Murdaugh door, Alex Murdaugh was Alex Murdaugh again.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have said and I will continue to say, it is totally unacceptable for anyone to go into a county office anywhere in this country and not receive the services, not receive equitable services. And it is important that there is accountability at every level so that customers can get fair and equitable treatment.

Jewel Bronaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end, there’s a new sheriff in town and accountability will be the order of the day.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anybody who has seen fit to get on television and talk about this incident, talk about this issue, can do right by the people of East Palestine and everybody else who lives near a railroad, not just when it comes to this case, but when it comes to the future, by getting on the right side of this issue, and helping to raise – not lower – the bar of accountability for the railroad industry.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It depends on the individual, if it turns into a distraction more than mindfulness, accountability or behavioral support, then you just want to rework things. You can kind of tinker with things until you find what works.

Billy Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re looking at it on House Oversight and Accountability Committee from a Hunter Biden family influence peddling deal and from the angle that we have legislative restriction over the National Archives.

James Comer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it’s a mistake to treat the judicial branch differently when it comes to these disclosures, they are stewards of public funds and owe some accountability for how they use these funds.

Sean Moulton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This action supports our goal to degrade Moscow’s capacity to wage war against Ukraine, to promote accountability for those responsible for Russia’s war of aggression and associated abuses, and to place further pressure on Russia’s defense sector.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Trust and confidence in representative government is broken, accountability in federal agencies is nonexistent, so the Biden administration is pushing radical policies to please its political allies. And the American people are paying the price for it — at the pump, at the grocery store and at the doctor’s office.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

However, the tides are changing, this Committee will no longer tolerate receiving these critical updates 20 days into the month and we will no longer tolerate this refusal to enforce law and order at the border. We look forward to having Secretary Mayorkas before the Committee soon to provide answers and accountability for the significant threat these border security policies have had on our homeland security posture.

Mark Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They need to apologize first and foremost and they need to apologize to Breonna Taylor’s family, i want accountability from this group.

Cayce Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter, this appointment underscores for the public the department’s commitment to independence and accountability, and particularly sensitive matters and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Garland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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