call to account

Example Sentences

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They don’t return for a bow, as if this had not been a performance but a call to account.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

How something can be prideful and at the same time call to account the nation that you’re writing about.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2020

Former President George W. Bush recently said “it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2017

Mr Bush said: "Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power."

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2017

Likewise you shall call to account all who shall have had charge of the incomes, alms, and other Page 285matters pertaining to them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander