6 sentences with 'accountable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word accountable and other words derived from it.
• « The inhabitants of the Roman provinces were accountable to their own legal systems as long as they were loyal to Rome and paid their taxes on time. »
• « Until the 18th century, the Ottoman state benefited from treating Jews and Christians as distinct legal entities, allowing them a high degree of legal autonomy and self-government (while remaining accountable to the central government). »
• « Many Protestants interpreted his message as an indication that true Christians were accountable only to the Bible and could therefore also reject the existing social hierarchy. »
• « The result was Europe's first constitutional monarchy: a government led by a king or queen, but in which legislation was controlled by a parliament and all citizens were accountable to the same set of laws. »
• « Among other things, he argued that rich and poor should be accountable to the same laws, that the aim of the judicial system should be both to prevent future crimes and to punish past ones, and that torture was both barbaric and counterproductive. »
• « Domestic violence was still commonplace, and the law generally only held husbands accountable if the violence appeared excessive from the perspective of the police and judges. »