call to account

Idioms  

1. Hold answerable, as in One day soon we'll be called to account for the child's behavior : [Mid-1500s]

2. Challenge or contest, as in The IRS is bound to call us to account on these deductions . [First half of 1800s]

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

call to account

They don’t return for a bow, as if this had not been a performance but a call to account.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

How something can be prideful and at the same time call to account the nation that you’re writing about.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2020

“I mean, power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive,” Bush said, “and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2018

Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP City watchdog the Financial Services Authority has been accused of "falling short" in its efforts to call to account the Bank of for raising interest rates paid by thousands of mortgage holders.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2013

Likewise you shall call to account all who shall have had charge of the incomes, alms, and other Page 285matters pertaining to them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander