account

I don't have a bank account.

I'll email you the receivable account details shortly.

Student: Well, it’s already been several weeks at the end of the semester and my check was supposed to go directly into my bank account but there haven’t been any deposits.

Ministers should be called to account for their actions.

I don't have to account for my decisions.

You see how this epicycle theory could account for the seemingly backward motion of the planet.

And those records didn’t even begin to account for all the tea smuggled into the country illegally to avoid paying taxes.

And Architects try to account for this effect in their design, but they can't guarantee a full auditorium.

Climatic changes at the end of the glacial period 13,000 years ago have been proposed to account for the emergence of farming.

Mithen proposes the existence of four mental elements to account for the emergence of farming: the ability to develop tools that could be used intensively to harvest and process plant resources; the tendency to use plants and animals as the medium to acquire social prestige and power; the tendency to develop "social relationships" with animals structurally similar to those developed with people—specifically, the ability to think of animals as people (anthropomorphism) and of people as animals (totemism); and the tendency to manipulate plants and animals.

You see how this epicycle theory could account for the seemingly backward motion of the planet.

Some hypotheses fail to account for simultaneous extinctions on land and in the seas.

Of the various hypotheses attempting to account for the late Cretaceous extinctions, the one that has attracted the most attention in recent years is the asteroid-impact hypothesis first suggested by Luis and Walter Alvarez.

The sheer passage of time does not account for it; adults have excellent recognition of pictures of people who attended high school with them 35 years earlier.

Is there anything else that might account for this change in muscular activity, other than saying that it is thinking?

She gave the police a full account of the incident.

The immense volume of clay tablets unearthed in the ruins of the Sumerian temples where the accounts were kept suggests a social differentiation within the scribal class, with a virtual army of lower-ranking tabulators performing the monotonous job of tallying commodities.

But regardless of who commissioned it, isn't the fact that it was based on eye witness accounts the most important thing?

Widely reported, if somewhat distrusted, accounts by figures like the famous traveler from Venice, Marco Polo, of the willingness of people in China to trade with Europeans and of the immensity of the wealth to be gained by such contact made the idea irresistible.

In English law a person is accounted innocent until they are proved guilty.

You see how this epicycle theory could account for the seemingly backward motion of the planet.

Most of the world’s potable water----freshwater suitable for drinking----is accounted for by groundwater, which is stored in the pores and fractures in rocks.

It accounts for 25 per cent of all traffic accidents.

They actually account for almost all of the meteorite material that falls to earth.

So it is gonna cost your company some money that you are going have to account for in your budget.

They account for some 95% of all fish in the southern ocean, the ocean that surrounds Antarctica.

In Sweden exports accounted for 18 percent of the national income in 1870, and in 1913, 22 percent of a much larger national income.

It exported 80 percent of its butter, almost all to Great Britain, where it accounted for 40 percent of British butter imports.

His reckless driving accounted for the accident.

Different factors could have worked in concert to account for their abrupt disappearance.

And the separate building in front of them is the Works Office and that still has some of the old accounts on display.

Put it on my account please.

The agency has lost several of its most important accounts.

The three rules I mentioned might be great for bird simulations, but they don't take into account the complexity and unpredictability of human behavior.

It's just that between my off-campus address, my email account and the school newspaper, I don't think there will be a problem.

Unfortunately, the success stories are at least matched by accounts of failure.

This warming, therefore, must be accounted for in interpreting climate change over the past century.

He will account for his crime.