To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.
We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.
Beth from accounting is just sitting in her car eating spaghetti.
It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.
I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.
