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
Questions are mounting as to how the fire at Wang Fuk Court spread so rapidly and who to hold responsible, with many Hong Kongers calling it a "man-made disaster".
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025
Who will the American people hold responsible for their suffering?
From Salon • Mar. 25, 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
If blame could attach to any one at all with regard to the duty in question, those to whom their orders had been given were the sole persons they could hold responsible.
From Hellenica by Dakyns, Henry Graham
