Answerable Sentence Examples

The president of the republic is not answerable at law for his official acts.

Europeans are answerable to the Italian civil code.

The Government Chief Whip is directly answerable to the Prime Minister.

Different scales of operation are covered, from the Treasurer doing it all, to significant paid finance staff answerable to the Board.

Most students will be over the age of 18 and are not legally answerable to their parents.

One characteristic point which appears very early is that they felt themselves called upon to vindicate the laws of divine righteousness in national matters, and especially in the conduct of the kings, who were not answerable to human authority.

The land-tax was doubled and trebled by war, by the pensions of the nobles, by an extortion the profits of which Richelieu disdained neither for himself nor for his family; and just when the richer and more powerful classes had been freed from taxes, causing the wholesale oppression of the poorer, these few remaining were jointly and severally answerable.

By making the police properly answerable to the communities they are meant to be serving ⦠.

We don't ban organizations, but we do make our elected representatives answerable for their actions.

It is not answerable in its views to any masters.

They would remain answerable to a supervisor or manager who would take overall responsibility for an area or policy or even the whole business.

The EU should be held answerable to the Court of Auditors, and not the other way around.

In February 1999, the Cabinet Office announced that 111 executive NDPBs and 47 advisory bodies would be made answerable to the PCA.

April-November 1933 - The Gestapo were only answerable to Goring.

They are therefore answerable for all payments, including those made by Direct Debit.

We already have regional government by quango and civil servant - the point is to make regional viceroys answerable to local voters.

Read through each section and highlight areas that are not readily answerable.

During the earlier days of the republic the doge had been a prince elected by the people, and answerable only to the popular assemblies.

The subjugation of the Saxons, who were divided into four main branches, was rendered more difficult by the absence of any common ruler, and of a central power answerable for the allegiance of the separate tribes.

The ministers were no longer to be the members of a great party, acting together in pursuance of a common policy accepted by them all as a united body; they were to become nominees of the court, each holding himself answerable not to his colleagues but to the king, separately, individually and by department.

We are ultimately answerable to God who owns everything.

Now, if his use of the term was stricter than the customary use, he can hardly be held answerable for the latter.