hold responsible
Example Sentences
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Or, as Mo Koyfman, founder at the venture-capital firm Shine Capital, puts it: Companies need a human to hold responsible should anything go wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Levitsky also pointed out that societies that fail to hold responsible people who attempt to orchestrate a coup have had negative repercussions in the past.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026
This would, they say, be the best way to rid Serbian institutions of the cronyism and corruption which they hold responsible for the railway station disaster.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025
The reasons for abandonment vary, but at least 126,000 of these wells are orphans, meaning there’s no longer an owner or company that state regulators can hold responsible for them.
From New York Times • May 24, 2024
Which shall we hold responsible for the failure, myself or the grub?
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
