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account for

verb

to give reasons for (an event, act, etc)
to make or provide a reckoning of (expenditure, payments, etc)
to be responsible for destroying, killing, or putting (people, aircraft, etc) out of action

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But it also talks of some names repeated several times as people who are "not being held to account for poor behaviour".

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The report estimates that in the UK and the US, where UPFs account for more than half of calorie intake, 14% of early deaths could be linked to the harms they cause.

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Late last year, California’s Office of Health Care Affordability set a target to make primary care account for 15% of total healthcare spending by 2034, more than double the current proportion.

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But the authors heard "examples of well-known names not being held to account for poor behaviour".

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But to this day no security officer has been held to account for the deaths and no official investigation has been published.

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