hold responsible

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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

Now it would be clear, she said, whom to hold responsible for blowing up their lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

There must be some organized group to hold responsible if men in office do badly; some people to warn that the things they are doing are not approved by the majority of the people.

From Theodore Roosevelt by Pearson, Edmund Lester