accountable
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Appeared in the May 5, 2026, print edition as 'Making Public Unions More Accountable'.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Ms. Shafik was the only invited witness to decline an invitation to appear last week before the House Education and the Workforce Committee for its hearing entitled “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism.”
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023
Holding signs that read, "Hold Him Accountable" and "We Believe You."
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2021
The data, provided to the AP by Accountable Now, a project of The Leadership Conference Education Fund aiming to create a comprehensive use-of-force database, includes incidents from 25 police departments in 17 states.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2021
It was so ascribed to him, first, as far as I can find, by a writer of the name of Fancourt, in the preface to his Free Agency of Accountable Creatures Examined, London, 1733, 8vo.
From Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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