Mr. Barry and other city leaders often disagreed with the board's decisions, but its efforts to restore financial accountability to the District have largely paid off.

Recording interrogations would restore much-needed accountability, he said, leading to the restoration of a measure of public confidence in the criminal justice system.

It is time to restore responsibility and accountability to our financial system.

But the present system needs to be overhauled to restore accountability, and quality education.

It is a bipartisan effort to restore choice and accountability to a health care system ruled by the bottom-line concerns of corporate executives.

Now it's up to the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, to restore elemental accountability.

Congressional efforts to restore corporate accountability and President Bush's response appear not to have reassured investors anxious about the accuracy of financial results.

The time has come, then, for a mid-course correction by the Legislature to restore transparency, public engagement and accountability to the school system.

He also promised to restore "local accountability" through a proposal to set up a new Northern Ireland assembly.

We promised we would restore political accountability for the decisions that affect people's lives and bring in a new age of transparency in Government.