The Chinese are helping to prevent Sudan and Iran from being held to account by the UN Security Council for suspected genocide in the one case and nuclear cheating in the other.
It also called for an immediate end to use of force against civilians by Libyan troops and said those responsible must be held to account.
There is also a well-founded suspicion that light-fingered bureaucrats and greedy politicians, the very people who caused the crisis, should be held to account but won’t be.
He should never taste freedom, but at least he was held to account and he will be 86 years old when his sentence is served.
Of the 827 documented killings of journalists over the past decade, the information at hand shows that only 8 percent of perpetrators were held to account.
Now it is up to state and local authorities to ensure that the money gets spent in the right places and teachers are held to account for showing up and teaching well.
Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister, responded then (when he was opposition leader) that "those responsible should be held to account".
Columnists and leader writers were no longer the voice of God: they could be immediately challenged, corrected, held to account.