Defence lawyers have also argued that Dr Gosnell should not be held accountable for Mrs Mongar's death in 2009, saying there were unforeseen complications.
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The court accepted his defence that he had been drugged by erstwhile business partners, a couple of Lebanese-American brothers, so apparently he could not be held accountable for his actions.
There are those advanced nations who think that developing countries either cannot absorb this assistance, or that will not be held accountable effectively, and that the world's fastest-growing emitters should bear a greater share of the burden.
But more than the legal machinations, there is a question that continues to linger over the case: Was there a so-called rape culture in Steubenville that allowed football players to believe they would not be held accountable for any wrongdoing?
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Unfortunately, the Senate's spotty record in recent decades of taking seriously its role in the treaty-making process has only served to encourage successive executives to settle for bad treaties - and trust that they would not be held accountable for the defects.
We want to be held accountable not for process but for results.
Clinton and Gore should be under no illusion: Whether fairly or not, they will be held accountable if, as a result of a failure to ensure that both the public and private sectors are induced to take corrective action on the Millennium Bug -- and helped to acquire the means to do so -- a long-predicted, well-understood and utterly avoidable cataclysm befalls the Nation, its people and interests.
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What is the incentive for forsaking the stuff if the individual is not going to be held accountable?
And if not, how can they be held legally accountable for side effects there is no way they could ever have recognized?
Those responsible will surely be held accountable - later, if not sooner.
We have and our international partners have made clear that it is the responsibility of the Syrian government to safeguard those stockpiles, and that any -- that the government and individuals within it will be held accountable if those stockpiles are not safeguarded.
Similarly, postal workers in another country are going to be less worried about being held accountable for not returning a letter from far away, as they are probably less likely to face complaints and have someone calling up their boss and demanding to know where their letter is.
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The people who ran the companies that brought us into this financial crisis should be held accountable with a public trial, if not a prison sentence.
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Their sentences demonstrate to those who may consider similar schemes that smoke and mirrors will not fool law enforcement, and you will be held accountable for such fraudulent activity.
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Mr Yeltsin's sack-the-government tactics smack of a deal provoked by such shadowy figures, who do not want Russia's new capitalists to be held accountable for their actions or their deals to be made transparent.
Despite finding individual officer actions 'unacceptable', the report does not name names and it seems no one will be held directly accountable.
Carrying signs reading "Justice 4 Trayvon" and "Thou Shalt Not Kill, " the crowd demanded that Mr. Zimmerman be held accountable.
But if docs are still paid for a minute of time and an episode of care and not held accountable for the care they deliver, using the data will be of little value.
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Anything that slows that process must be rejected, regardless of whether investment firms that have contributed to the demise of pensions are not held accountable.
If they have that, there may not be a good reason for them to come to a company workplace if they can be held accountable for their performance when they work remotely.
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