• It is time for the international community to bring to account the perpetrators of heinous crimes like systematic rape, and to back UN resolutions with decisive action.

    UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

  • There may be no constituency more supportive of Mr Spitzer than the rank and file including the former rank and file of many banks: he is seen as the only public official bold enough to take action to bring people to account.

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  • They have offered for me to make a one-off lump sum payment to bring the account up to date or to extend my mortgage term, but this does not alter the fact that it is their error that will now impact on my finances.

    BBC: News - Clydesdale and Yorkshire mortgage error: Your stories

  • He has gained kudos for trying to bring her to account.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is part of UK policing and aims to track down offenders and bring them to account.

    BBC: Groomed and raped girls ask who can we turn to?

  • If some massive organization figures out a way to steal a few bucks from millions of people, it might be the only way to bring them account.

    FORBES: Sales Tax Class Action Suits Seem Frivolous

  • "It is increasingly clear that clerical child sex abuse happened in Northern Ireland over many years and over many parishes - but only a proper state-instituted inquiry will tell us the extent of the problem and help bring to account those responsible, " he added.

    BBC: Dr Joseph Duffy was Bishop of Clogher for 31 years

  • Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva later told CNN in an exclusive interview with Rivers that he would bring those responsible to account.

    CNN: expos�� on Thai refugee abuse wins award

  • In a little-noticed comment during the weekend's meetings, Yi Gang, a deputy governor of China's central bank and head of the country's foreign-exchange reserves, said that China aimed to bring its current-account surplus below 4% of GDP within 3-5 years.

    ECONOMIST: Currency wars

  • Ambrose opened his account with a cut for four to bring up the 100 in the 36th over, and though he demonstrated his liking for width with a century in New Zealand last winter, the Kiwis still gave him too much room outside the off-stump.

    BBC: Pietersen century rescues England

  • This fiasco got its start last year, when Schwab inserted in its standard customer arbitration agreement a provision that any investor who opens an account with Schwab is giving up his right to bring a class action against Schwab.

    FORBES: Small Investors Smacked Down, One More Time, in Schwab Ruling

  • E-filed returns bring quicker refunds, too, and they can be made directly to a bank account.

    WSJ: Tax Report: What's New for Tax Season

  • If you go on to our website and put in details of your current account it will bring up comparisons of other accounts, and one of the things, criteria, used to select is satisfaction and service.

    BBC

  • Infrastructure loans have risen quickly to account for about 15% of overall loans not enough to bring the system to its knees, but enough to harm a handful of banks if any losses are unevenly distributed.

    ECONOMIST: Does India have a bad-debt problem?

  • As Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas explained in their 2010 working paper A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations, the notion that minority board members bring unique information to the table that leads to improved performance, though beneficial, does not account for better results.

    FORBES: How Inclusivity Can Save the American Economy

  • Barnardo's has now called on the Scottish government to bring forward a completely new set of guidelines which would place a greater burden on local authorities and take account of how the internet is being used to further exploitation.

    BBC: child

  • This makes them consistent with other measures to relax restrictions on the capital account such as the expansion of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme, which allows foreigners to bring portfolio investment capital into China but only in a carefully regulated manner.

    WSJ: Business Asia: The Quietly International Yuan

  • This is a sensationalised account of the threat from bioterrorism and not in keeping with the healthy scepticism you usually bring to bear on such matters.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

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