Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an accountable manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an accountable manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
accountable manner.
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Examples
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Students learn how hard it is to operate openly, responsibly and accountably.
Houston Dougharty: The Benefits of Self-Governance on the College Campus: Empowering Students to Govern Themselves Houston Dougharty 2011
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And, I hope, pass laws sooner rather than later to demilitarise the police; ban Tasers and rubber bullets; criminalise police and politician violence against free speech activities; demand prosecutions for financial fraud; compel the corporate books that unaccountably swallow billions in tax revenue to be audited; investigate torturers; bring home soldiers from corporate wars of choice – and rebuild society, this time from the grassroots up, accountably, lawfully and democratically.
How to Occupy the moral and political high ground | Naomi Wolf 2011
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My client cannot be held accountably for the hypothetical deaths in some imaginary future.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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When one looks at progress on tests that are "low stakes," in the sense that teachers will not be punished based on the test scores and, thus, have no incentive to inflate those scores, the accountably regime is a failure.
James Gee: Accountability: How and Why a Boring Report Made Me Weep James Gee 2011
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He must be held accountably for all of his crimes just as every else would.
Evening Buzz: Fugitive Filmmaker Arrested, Fighting Back 2009
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The Congress has failed to accountably measure the impacts, both positive and negative, of using taxpayer dollars to stimulate or supplement deployment of intermittent electricity generation technologies.
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My client cannot be held accountably for the hypothetical deaths in some imaginary future.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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When one looks at progress on tests that are "low stakes," in the sense that teachers will not be punished based on the test scores and, thus, have no incentive to inflate those scores, the accountably regime is a failure.
James Gee: Accountability: How and Why a Boring Report Made Me Weep James Gee 2011
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Others offered a half-baked and half-hearted criticism that the money being donated wouldn't be accountably tracked -- as if it were being accountably tracked before it were donated?
Trevor Neilson: 10 Reasons Why the Giving Pledge Will Reshape Philanthropy Trevor Neilson 2010
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Others offered a half-baked and half-hearted criticism that the money being donated wouldn't be accountably tracked -- as if it were being accountably tracked before it were donated?
Trevor Neilson: 10 Reasons Why the Giving Pledge Will Reshape Philanthropy Trevor Neilson 2010
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