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hold (someone) accountable (for someone)

To deem someone responsible for something. I don't care if Vince is trying to blame this blunder on his staff—I hold him accountable. Who do we hold accountable for this blunder?
See also: accountable, hold
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hold someone accountable (for something)

 and hold someone responsible (for something)
to consider someone responsible for something; to blame something on someone. I hold you accountable for John's well-being. I must hold you responsible for the missing money.
See also: accountable, hold
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Eighty two per cent of the surveyed professionals by the Landmark Workplace Study reported failing on making others accountable. Without a sense of trust and team-work, there is no way employees align deliberately to leaders' authority.
"According to the new laws, judges will by all means be held accountable and I hope this will also happen at the Public Prosecutor's Office.
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Duterte said nine years old was just his 'suggestion' to legislators, adding that parents should be 'conscious of the criminal accountability' of their children because they, too, would be held accountable for their children's offenses.
The accountable forms include certificate of election returns, certificate of canvass and statement votes forms.
Hence, it has been decided to redesign the TIN card and at the same time declare it as an accountable form in order to address the issue of unauthorized issuance of TIN card within and outside the BIR," Dulay said.
The Pakistani government knows that "that's our review and this administration has already made significant efforts to hold them accountable and we hope that they'll achieve the goal that we have out for them", said the secretary of state.
The irony is when the same church that urges the government to be accountable to its people knows nothing about accountability!
Parliament has tasked two of its committees to draft a bill regulating the question of holding ex-Presidents accountable, initiator Iskhak Masaliyev commented to AKIpress.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday that Pakistan Mulsim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid Nawaz Sharif will be held accountable for the last 30 years in politics, Express News reported.
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If true, why did not the respective governments take any measures to hold the responsible officials accountable and restructure these institutions?
Government by the accountable I voted for Britain to exit the EU (Brexit) as we should only be governed by those we can hold accountable (it is called democracy).
The Comelec said new and additional ballots, accountable and non-accountable forms will also be printed for those who registered from November 6 to 30, 2017.
An event highlighting the research and findings of the WISH 2016 forum report on accountable care was held in London recently.
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