268 examples of accountable in sentences

"If I'm beaten, you're accountable and will have to help.

Will you let me hire some of your factory boys?" "Sorry, but they're Liberian Kroos, engaged on a twelve-months' contract to work in my compound, and I'm accountable for them to the Liberian government.

It is probably much more easily accountable.

Then he got up with a headache for which he held his wife accountable; Alice was getting horribly parsimonious, and had bothered him until he tried to cut down his wine merchant's bill by experimenting with cheaper liquor.

" "In a way, I suppose you are accountable.

It was the code of the old school; the family stood together, a compact unit to which she belonged and for whose deeds she believed herself accountable.

Shám Babu accepted their praises meekly, remarking that he had done nothing more than his duty, by neglecting which he would have rendered himself accountable to God.

If they could only be made to feel that to Him they are accountable!"

"I cannot be accountable for what may follow.

In addition to the responsibilities which may thus be enforced by impeachment, criminal prosecution, or suit at law, he is also accountable at the bar of public opinion for every act of his Administration.

These are believed to be the proper and only modes in which the President of the United States is to be held accountable for his official conduct.

"He will not be long in your custody, and I shall see that you are held strictly accountable for his safety.

To be free, you must be independent; you must receive money for your work; come to market with money; purchase from whom you please, and be accountable to no one but that Being above, who I hope will watch over and protect you!I sincerely trust that proper arrangements will be made before the 1st of August.

"I will not be accountable for that woman's expenses from this time forth," said Douglas, pointing at her, "You can keep her at your own risk, or turn her into the streets to pursue her profession, as you please.

Chain 150 00 William Beauvoir Not accountable in case of fire, damage, moth, robbery, breakage, &c. 25% per ann.

He is, in fact, a viceroy appointed by the crown of Spain, and accountable only to the reigning sovereign for his administration of the colony.

When you consider that on the health of your slaves almost your whole voyage dependsfor all other risques but mortality, seizures and bad debts the underwriters are accountable foryou will therefore particularly attend to smoking your vessel, washing her with vinegar, to the clarifying your water with lime or brimstone, and to cleanliness among your own people as well as among the slaves.

"Man is accountable,' equals, 'Mankind are accountable.

"Man is accountable,' equals, 'Mankind are accountable.

He not only imputed to him Mr. Brome's verses (for which he might indeed seem in some degree accountable, having corrected what that gentleman did) but those of the duke of Buckingham and others.

It is the same discipline of self-restraint which is accountable for the absence of more frequent revivals in the Christian churches of Japan.

The deep silence of night was broken by strange noises for which neither the wind nor the rats could be held accountable.

Columbus answered that he was admiral to their Catholic majesties, and accountable to no man, and would not quit his ship unless compelled by superior force.

He is a despot, but a despot who is constantly accountable for the welfare of his subjects, and who never passes a day without many grave thoughts of the despots above him.

Public ownership or corporate ownership or an increased lawlessness are accountable for a disregard of others' rights and of property which is unnecessarily increasing the cost of living.

268 examples of  accountable  in sentences