call to account
Example Sentences
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They don’t return for a bow, as if this had not been a performance but a call to account.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021
“Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2017
Former President George W. Bush recently said “it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2017
Mr Bush said: "Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power."
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2017
It may be imagined what his indignation was; was there any man in the village whom he could call to account?
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
