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Example sentences for "held responsible"

  • If the account be rejected by the House of Representatives, the Cabinet shall be held responsible.

  • The members of the Li Fa Yuan shall not be held responsible to outsiders for their speeches, arguments and voting in the House.

  • Members of the Censor Yuan shall not be held responsible outside of the said Yuan for opinions they may express and votes they may cast while discharging their duties.

  • Delegates to the People's Congress shall not be held responsible outside of Congress for opinions they may express and votes they may cast during the session of Congress.

  • Members of the Legislative Yuan shall not be held responsible outside of the said Yuan for opinions they may express and votes they may cast during its session.

  • In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct.

  • It lies in having the power insufficiently concentrated, so that no one can be held responsible to the people for its use.

  • The numerous victims required to supply it would convert the whole slave coast into a perfect pandemonium, for which this country would be held responsible in the eyes both of God and man.

  • It ought to be remembered, however, that for these acts neither Congress nor any President can justly be held responsible.

  • Their duty was simply to obey, and for this they were properly held responsible.

  • The purpose of its location and management are too obvious to need remark; and for all this, Jefferson Davis and his Secretary of War are to be held responsible.

  • The worst of it is that your husband will be held responsible.

  • Only when Captain von Seleneck asked him about the papers, he said that he was to be held responsible.

  • If a judgment is secured against a resident of New York and he moves to Minnesota without paying it, could he be held responsible in Minnesota without another suit?

  • And responsibility depends upon personality--a thing cannot be held responsible.

  • How shall this branch be held responsible, without crippling its efficiency?

  • For such high-handed proceedings the Transvaal Government clearly cannot be held responsible, for at that time it had ceased to exist, and more than ever the head of each commando had become a law unto himself.

  • Neither for that rain can the army doctors be held responsible, though it almost drove them to despair.

  • It was therefore seldom attempted, but many a lawless deed was done, like firing on ambulances and funeral parties, for which no leader can well be held responsible.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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