A major obstacle to good governance is the entrenched lack of accountability within the government. |
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The convoluted plotlines and gimmicky narration distract needlessly from its premise of ecological change and accountability. |
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Lastly, we strengthened accountability in 2003 by ending social promotion in our state once and for all. |
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However, many accountability systems tend to solidify and perpetuate these differences rather than facilitate their elimination. |
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This is another massive usurpation of local control of public schools, draped in the faux fabric of federal accountability. |
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We must have learned from past that transparency and accountability are of the utmost of importance. |
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Big Tech traditionally hasn't been a leader in the drive to bring accountability to health care. |
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Stronger local accountability can be a powerful antidote to the postcode lottery. |
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Where was the accountability and quality control necessary to prevent such a disaster? |
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Ultimately, the goal is to establish more accountability and improve teaching. |
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Acceptability in the international legal community necessitates accountability. |
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What would happen to accountability if an attacker would find a bug in a program and use it in order to gain access to medical records? |
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The role of the school district bureaucracy shrinks to handing out money and administering the accountability program. |
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In addition to control, Congress also emphasizes bureaucratic accountability. |
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Because of the absolute immunity from accountability that EU officials feel they possess, they decided to ignore these requests. |
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I found it most interesting that he was the first cab off the rank to bag this bill, to bag transparency, and to bag accountability. |
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However, the cost of quality assurance and accountability procedures is the nub of the matter. |
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Fiscal accountability, being very open with students on how we spend our money, accounting for every penny. |
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It goes to the accountability and the powers and perquisites of the government. |
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She issues a clarion call for accountability at the top of corporations and better corporate governance. |
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The reason for this is that hypothecation reduces financial accountability in the absence of competitive market disciplines. |
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In cases of dishonest assistance the accountability of the third parties will not be confined to the profit which he has made. |
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Such payers trace a new route of accountability, from provider agents back to insurance plan principals. |
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Increasingly, church leaders understand there is a higher degree of accountability for those of us who steward funds. |
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As many have observed, clerical and especially episcopal accountability is a complex matter. |
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And each child will be assigned a single care worker in a bid to stop them being passed between agencies and to improve accountability. |
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So what does he have to say about the lack of accountability of the judiciary for their own negligent acts and omissions? |
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Will the big media outlets demand the same accountability of themselves that they demand of everyone else? |
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Political reform in the country is fostering greater openness about past atrocities but little accountability. |
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The leadership has chosen to protect secrecy and abuses of power over openness, accountability and freedom. |
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The discussion of new forms for episcopal collegiality and accountability, such as a plenary council or a special synod of bishops, was put off. |
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On the other hand, it enables people to spread rumors and untruths without accountability. |
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He's going to be the fall guy in the classic strategery for evading accountability. |
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There are ways to lie and be completely absolved of any kind of accountability. |
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A local source of finance is essential if local independence and accountability are to be maintained. |
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Some total purchasing pilots also developed processes for horizontal accountability based on peer review of prescribing and referrals. |
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In spite of this the Oxford examination system is characterised by a distinct lack of accountability to the student body. |
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There must be a popular move to require transparency and accountability in all walks of life. |
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The function of formal rules and accountability mechanisms in the regulation of police work is more indirect and subtle. |
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If the situation regarding accountability can be established, most of the electorate would be overjoyed. |
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They have to make sure staff know their responsibilities and their accountability. |
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A second approach to resolving the dilemma is creating accountability to an outside party rather than to an employee's superordinates. |
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One of the consequences of their taking the Parliamentary path is accountability. |
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When public funds are involved, accountability requires that money is spent wisely. |
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In today's litigious society, we need to have someone to blame, to apportion accountability. |
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For even a minor piece of construction work, there is a system of accountability. |
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We have to get the professional game right and we have to give it responsibility and accountability. |
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Where is the outrage and demand amongst the fourth estate for some accountability from him? |
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Lack of accountability has corroded public respect for business and political leaders. |
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Their usual role is to provide the illusion of accountability while refusing to lay a finger on the holders of power. |
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Given that this includes accountability to the public, his comments seem more than a little confused. |
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He said accountability was important for a police service wounded by a lack of public trust. |
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The key legal issues arising from clinical ethics committees concern accountability. |
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It is about taking responsibility for the accountability that actually you have now got a bad manager. |
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In any democratic set up the question of accountability of the budget is an important factor. |
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Greater political diversity on the Exec has led to more accountability to students. |
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The organization has again managed to avoid allowing transparency and accountability into its secret and elitist decision-making. |
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The accountability issue goes beyond the individual dietitian, and has an impact on the dietetic profession. |
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Building the necessary team to support the growing agenda will also be an accountability of the job holder. |
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I'm serious about this because we are now looking at some accountability in a system. |
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She calls for a radical re-examination of traditional approaches to accountability, transparency and press freedom. |
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The administration largely avoided public accountability for its actions by burying the story. |
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This transition to electronic voting cannot be justified, because any gains in efficiencies are counterbalanced by lost accountability. |
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The letter-writing campaigns of Amnesty International and the assessments of UN human rights rapporteurs depend on this accountability. |
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The boundaries of constituencies in both parliaments would be coterminous in order to allow clear local political accountability. |
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While credit for the good is claimed by both, accountability for the ills like rampant tree cutting does not devolve on either. |
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It also seeks to improve the accountability of the public servants to spend and deliver the services. |
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We have to keep the idea that there will be some sort of rational accountability for such acts alive in this culture or we are goners. |
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The default comes at the sacrifice of accountability, or what is popularly termed transparency. |
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The maintenance of downwards accountability to local communities by the NHS has generally proved difficult to achieve. |
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Second, efforts could be made to demonopolize decision making, such that individual discretion is limited and accountability is strengthened. |
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In such cases accountability through international institutions may be the only practical remedy available. |
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It's just another challenge on top of all the demands for accountability and raising test scores. |
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And by setting up a demand that is impossible to fulfil, it replaces responsibility and accountability with blame. |
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It can ensure transparency and accountability within parameters of responsible journalism. |
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New Zealand First believes that this bill will encourage more responsible activities and more accountability to public donors. |
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Both shamefully used social division to their electoral advantage pursuing a governing style which corrodes probity and accountability. |
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Ordinary shareholders will have to cause a rumpus at the annual general meetings to force real accountability and change. |
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They react antagonistically to any demand from the rank-and-file for democracy and accountability. |
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These people who want greater transparency, greater accountability, are upset about the corruption and the dominant authoritarianism. |
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Everything was done with the ancestors and the seventh generation yet to come in mind, a reverent model of accountability. |
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Excellence in journalism revolves around the key concepts of transparency, accountability, objectivity and credibility. |
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The prime minister's open display of contempt for democratic accountability has only deepened the revulsion felt towards him. |
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The third method is to set up a system of accountability for propaganda work. |
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Social partnership is subjected to no democratic accountability and its deliberations are carried out in secret. |
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Help us articulate the complexity, responsibility, and accountability of command and its direct linkage to our success as a military profession. |
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Its government desperately needs such a system of accountability to stem the arbitrariness, corruption, and cronyism. |
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Staff role played various ways to approach a co-worker, how to use language of accountability, and how to ask for help. |
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Order maintenance is clearly a political enterprise, raising questions of definition, equity and accountability. |
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Friends of the Earth is calling for a global convention on corporate accountability. |
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These networks obstruct accountability as much by their flux as by their intricacy. |
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We retained a district sales manager with total accountability for driving sales, not negotiating contracts. |
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That is an awful lot of political constituencies to which accountability is required. |
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Will this direct reporting be enough to loosen the strictures of centralization and create the accountability and openness that is needed? |
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A good deal has been written about the need for accountability and transparency in diocesan transactions, financial and managerial. |
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I'd like to see her put forward positive policy in tandem with her accountability crusade. |
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Now, as international agreements hit the scene, the accountability question becomes cloudy. |
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Special-education placements did increase nationally, just not in any systematic way suggestive of a relationship to state accountability. |
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The President's talk about accountability is tied to the idea that schools should be run more like businesses. |
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The management mantra that responsibility is ineffective without accountability holds true with regard to the role of citizens. |
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He promised that transparency and accountability would form foundation of his executive's tenure in office and success on the field of play. |
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But I always ask people three questions about accountability to try and concretise the discussion. |
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When a community gets together with accountability and openness and works together, you can get a lot done. |
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And we also plan to introduce the concept of accountability in the NHI system. |
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The secret services are currently split between departments, and live outside proper ministerial and parliamentary accountability. |
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They believe in the Day of Judgment and individual accountability for actions. |
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Given John Elliot's standards of accountability, don't expect too many senior personnel to be falling on their swords. |
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So there's every sign that the system responds within a frame of accountability. |
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With accountability so popular, however, the unions and their allies found themselves in a political bind. |
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Whether or not you believe that the War on Iraq was justified, transparency and accountability in our democracy appears to be at a low ebb. |
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They love to talk about accountability but seem petrified of allowing even small steps toward freedom. |
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You are easily inhibited by setbacks, and you seek projects that don't require minute accountability. |
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Judges must, of course, be free from political interference, but that must not be at the expense of accountability. |
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There are clearly double standards when it comes to accountability for collective failures. |
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Other important criteria would be a clean track record, transparency, accountability, and the ability to communicate, he added. |
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Alan, is there any accountability held by media, by networks, by newspapers, etcetera, for the people who've been making these wrong calls? |
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Quality and accountability continue to be the focus of community college presidents. |
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It is a disgrace in political terms, because it calls into contempt the very idea of political and executive accountability. |
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And better still, the back of the menu was a billet-doux to gastronomic accountability. |
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Balfour said yesterday that he recognised the autonomy of sports federations, but autonomy needed accountability and responsibility. |
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At the moment, our self-righteous claim that we are here to ensure accountability is so hypocritical it's our credibility that's shot to pieces. |
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But I believe the historical conjunction that gave rise to accountability continues to inflect and propel it. |
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By sacrificing simplicity and clarity they can avoid responsibility and accountability. |
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Thus, Anselm's God is not an arbitrary monarch or a tyrant with no accountability and with a bloodthirsty desire for punishment or payment. |
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All radio talk show hosts blab and bloviate about national security, safe borders, and political accountability. |
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Effectively protected from public scrutiny, the barbed-wire medical system is uncoordinated, underfunded and has almost zero accountability. |
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Intergovernmentalists believe the EU should be a federation of nation states, and the focus of accountability should be national governments. |
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If this sounds like a dodge by those afraid of accountability, why the suspicion among successful districts? |
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It has shown what happens when unelected officials run their own fiefdoms with little regard for democratic accountability. |
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It was based on principles of equity, people-centredness, quality and accountability. |
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American courts in the nineteenth century demonstrated much broader standards of accountability than is the current practice. |
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So far, it looks as if, through a series of subterfuges and evasions, there will be neither an adequate investigation nor any accountability. |
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The bottom line should be accountability and credibility, not affordability. |
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The notion of representative bodies with public responsibility and accountability is deeply entrenched and naturalised in the white community. |
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Burton had promised that weakening the big shots would heighten the accountability and responsiveness of Congress. |
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Yet, far from nudging Rajapaksa toward greater accountability, their presence in Sri Lanka is likely only to abet his rise. |
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It would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years. |
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The center for Justice and accountability in San Francisco, and other human rights organizations went to work to expand the law. |
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Especially not by the faceless boogymen that spew threats with no accountability. |
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If anything, women should be held to higher levels of accountability when they decide to have children. |
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Ultimately, disclosure laws are an essential tool for promoting transparent supply chains and corporate accountability. |
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Another proposal that came up at the hearing would impose a measure of accountability on the back end. |
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Goals need to be set and reviewed and accountability cannot be ignored. |
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An entire change of culture and open debate on accountability is required. |
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We query the teacher as to her views on assessment and accountability in general and special education, and on inclusion of students in general education. |
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Rather, her accountability is intrinsic to her weak-willed action itself. |
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There is a shamelessness to the lack of inquiry or accountability in the Senate chambers. |
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The humble-sounding Tory leader, in his keynote speech to the party conference in Bournemouth, pledged to make accountability his watchword and said they could deliver. |
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When Krohn raised concerns over this lack of accountability, he was told that it would take too long to count the collection and distribution of all the money. |
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In the end, accountability groups provide for many of the men a sense of equality with their fellows even as they serve to reify particular types of social hierarchies. |
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It should be able to establish yardsticks by which to measure the quality and accountability of public services as well as a monitoring mechanism. |
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Special focus would be given to strengthening lawmaking systems and processes, policy development, assessment of implementation capacity, oversight and accountability. |
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But what's happening to Bernanke now isn't accountability, it's a feeding frenzy. |
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Michelle also advanced an aggressive policy agenda combining accountability with parent choice and fiscal sustainability. |
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Every step toward inscrutability is a step away from accountability, or fond hopes like programming in friendliness toward humans. |
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At the moment, our self-righteous claim that we are here to ensure accountability is so screamingly hypocritical it's our credibility that's shot to pieces. |
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Greater accountability leads to greater measurability of impact. |
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That is because community work under this Government is being run on a Mickey Mouse basis, where there is no accountability or responsibility whatsoever. |
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This new democracy puts Australia to shame in showing how little real accountability there is under our system with Government appointments to key positions. |
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This characteristic functions as the tradition of accountability. |
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Promoting good governance, transparence and accountability involves putting in place mechanisms that enhance and guarantee the quality of public services. |
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How that one got past the speaker is a travesty of fiscal accountability. |
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A verdict that could have provided accountability, vindication, and healing did not happen. |
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Serious problems with laws, policies, and practices persist and can compromise victim safety and offender accountability. |
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But the action really worth watching will unfurl where delegates and lobbyists come face to face with actual unmasked New Yorkers, who will demand accountability. |
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Hidden in this dictum is the danger of unlimited government, of the exercise of power untrammelled by the need for openness, transparency and accountability. |
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Mitchell's failure to name those who paid for a private opinion poll during the election campaign appeared at variance with his public pleas for openness and accountability. |
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So much for the much vaunted transparency and accountability policy. |
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But such brutal accountability is hard to find in the public sphere. |
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Cost calculations were part of a regime that enhanced visibility and established a system of calculability that rendered human accountability visible. |
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As we noted several months ago, orotund, abstract language can obfuscate accountability, truth-telling, and as we're now seeing most clearly, the simple facing of reality. |
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You've allowed crime to go haywire and there's no accountability. |
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The drafters viewed power politics, and the opportunistic use of Security Council vetoes, as an obstacle to individual accountability under international human rights law. |
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What the high court has done, however, is to at least bring the torturers within the orbit of the law, subject to some form of accountability and judicial restraint. |
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Through its overemphasis on democratic accountability in the name of transparency, the present social system stands in the way of the emergence of such a self-appointed elite. |
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One approach is creating a culture in which accountability to organizational superordinates feels like an opportunity to contribute rather than a threatening event. |
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There will have to be a paper trail and accountability of the votes. |
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The pressures of visual appeal, economic accountability and the lack of information about alternatives have kept most turf managers from finding an alternative to synthetics. |
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By suggesting that voices of protest are somehow alien and inauthentic, those in authority seek to cloud the issues and evade accountability for their own actions. |
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In calling for civility, courage, compassion, and character, he spoke to the desire of many for greater national comity and citizen accountability. |
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A lack of accountability to the people is the common thread between them. |
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The realization of these facts definitely plants within him a deep sense of accountability that compels him to lead a responsible life in this world. |
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In political terms the minister can be isolated from and insulated against accountability for the day to day implementation and administration of policy. |
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Hence, used as a symbol of intellectual life, or a standard of what real intellectualism entails, his thesis obfuscates issues of access, privilege and accountability. |
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In contradistinction, this is a philosophy that ought to be at the core of a democratic society, committed to openness, transparency and accountability. |
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Although, even traditional pharmacies have had problems with counterfeits from their wholesalers, at least if they're certified there's some accountability. |
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The court system lacks sufficient tools, information, and accountability necessary to move children swiftly out of foster care and into permanent homes. |
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Key to the audit committee's effectiveness and accountability is a critical self assessment for the audit committee as well as each individual member. |
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Large organisations are constructed to fracture and dilute accountability. |
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In the wake of last year's tsunami disaster, for instance, fund-raising was intense, but there have been no accountability reports from the fund-raisers to their donors. |
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The bartender is chosen as the point of access, not because the bartender is the ideal person for the role of glass pourer, but for security and accountability reasons. |
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Moreover, understanding genetic influences as predispositions or limiting factors still leaves a potentially broad sphere of human freedom and moral accountability. |
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As some companies launch aggressive door to door consumer selling campaigns, with salesmen with little accountability, we fear even larger scale hassle for customers. |
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By poking fun at the bodies or habits of the powerful, comic cards could attack social proprieties and conventions without accountability or retribution. |
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Ministers resigned even if caught in an unbecoming controversy suggesting dereliction of duty, attracting public accountability even if without fault. |
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We have cleared up a number of grey areas, and a number of situations where the existing legislation was unclear about lines of accountability and responsibility. |
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The 44 eminences charge that Britain's apparent lack of transparency and accountability threatens to undermine whatever moral high ground there is left. |
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What if more accountability actually slowed it down, gummed it up. |
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Addressing a public meeting in Sikandar Ghari Bin Khazi, Badhber he said that the comparing of performance sans accountability is not possible. |
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Such a catchall, rush approach to approving spending plans permits legislators to sidestep accountability for their votes. |
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They found leadership and accountability were often lacking but bullying was endemic. |
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Responsible government of parliamentary accountability manifests itself in several ways. |
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The Government also argued that the transfer of power to local councils would increase electoral accountability. |
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This system aids in better evaluation of policies and procedures with accountability and efficiency in terms of time and money. |
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In the public sector, we have not really created 360-degree accountability. It is more like 360-degree harassment. |
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For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. |
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The Senate does not have to endure the accountability and scrutiny of parliamentary elections. |
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Scientists assume an attitude of openness and accountability on the part of those conducting an experiment. |
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Secondly, accountability makes it necessary for the public authority to face up to the people affected by a decision. |
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This definition excludes the presence of a small number of witnesses randomly selected to assure executive accountability. |
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The school has campaigned that all schools should be similarly inspected, ensuring openness and accountability for the process. |
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The activities of the Agency and its advisory committees must take place in the open sunshine of public scrutiny and accountability. |
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Some questions are totally legitimate and the FOI Act is a vital tool in increasing the transparency and accountability of public bodies. |
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He formed small classes in which his followers would receive religious guidance and intensive accountability in their personal lives. |
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Develop ways to lead people to get the job done and master the intricacies of profit center accountability and incentive compensation. |
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What if, poling asks, Jackson never reached the age of accountability? |
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Kuwait has more government accountability and transparency than other GCC countries. |
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There is also an independent expert group established to advise the Commission on financial accountability. |
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The accountability system in the US is due to the No Child Left Behind Act. |
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Transparency and accountability along the whole supply chain are increasingly visible through policies and control mechanisms. |
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The FDA has put at stake the accountability and credibility of state legislatures in this precedent setting rule making. |
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Our goal is to lead the way in bringing creative accountability and measurability to our clients. |
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Standing Order 66 therefore represents the beginnings of Ministerial responsibility and accountability. |
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Work dimensions create three critical psychological aspects that are meaningfulness, accountability for results and knowledge of results. |
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Although well intentioned, this proposal will consume valuable corporate resources without meaningfully enhancing corporate accountability. |
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He said that as long as the sacred cows syndrome persisted accountability will remain a pipe dream. |
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Left-wingers will play the victim card while others will deplore the lack of accountability for native leaders. |
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Here, the study reveals limits to the centralistic political accountability. |
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Our recent accreditations serve to further demonstrate our unwavering commitment to quality and accountability. |
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This means greater local control and accountability by northerners for decisions central to the future of the territories. |
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Our guiding principles will be those of transparency, accountability and responsibility. |
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Waaaaa! Waaaaa! If you let it, life can become nothing more than a crying game that is void of accountability and void of responsibility. |
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I think one of the reasons for some MPs' cageyness is that some are hoping that discussions about improving political accountability are starting to fade. |
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As the only Utahan to sit on the nine-member board, Galindo will bring both her powerful message about accountability and her skills as speaker, author and consultant. |
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They enable unrepresentative apparatchicks to enveigle themselves into the central control of the RFU without election by the membership or accountability to the membership. |
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The Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union is but one example of how the nation's 13,200 credit unions are taking fiscal accountability to a new level. |
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Much strong academic, legislative and judicial opinion was opposed to the notion that businessmen could escape accountability for their role in the failing businesses. |
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Moreover, standards-driven accountability deemphasizes and devitalizes important intellectual and aesthetic faculties such as art, music, poetry, and creative writing. |
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The issues of storage and accountability of medical chemical defense equipment and material should also be on the mind of every CBRN leader during deployment. |
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Poor operation of facilities, such as water and wastewater treatment plants, as well as limited government accountability and transparency, are also issues. |
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Representatives of members operate in accordance with whatever procedures for democratic authority and accountability are in force in their respective elected legislatures. |
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Not the least of its merits consists of having successfully reached the difficult balance between nonspecialist readableness and scientific accountability. |
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The degree to which the Guiding Principles shape formal systems of protection and accountability in the future will be the true test of Ruggie's mandate. |
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The Conservatives also attacked Lloyd George as lacking any executive accountability as Prime Minister, claiming that he rarely appeared at Cabinet. |
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The problem, all said and done, is of an acute sense of unswerving honesty and the effective presence of a sharp sword of an uncompromisable accountability. |
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He pointed out the parliament is already making laws on school standards, feudal law, public finance and accountability and on standards in public life. |
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The verbal communication has worked a little, but it eliminates accountability for the companies that have no intention of re-hiring, as there is plausible deniability. |
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There are already movements towards ensuring corporate social accountability and penalising corporations that act incompatibly with international human rights norms. |
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These were times of no accountability and happy-go-lucky operationalism. |
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Marine Corps veteran, to discuss police and prosecutor accountability and to address the current police abuse and prosecutorial misconduct crisis. |
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