Sentence examples for Being answerable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Obliged to answer or be called to account ( somebody); accountable, responsible.
- Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
For instance, a just system of criminal law must convict and punish only those who are responsible, in the sense of being answerable for their crimes: only those who have the capacities necessary to answer for their actions, who are bound by this criminal law, and who are answerable to the political community whose law it is and whose courts call them to answer.
And it means being answerable for the dodgy judgment of appointing Mal Brough in the first place.
During one exchange, as she argued Westminster was answerable for Northern Ireland, Mr FitzGerald retorted that "for 50 years they had not regarded themselves as being answerable".
In Turkumpoor, a village in a particularly militant-infested area, residents described being answerable to the Indian security forces by day, and militants by night.
All things to all men As the people at UKCES find, this means being answerable to ministers of different political persuasions.
Besides this, the many inconveniences related to being answerable to an agency in Albany led P&S in 1860 to severe its ties with the Regents and forge an affiliation with Columbia College.
Only in this way, Heidegger adds, can the human being be answerable or responsible (verantwortlich).
The answer is ANSWERABLE.
I am answerable to them".
"Yet no one is answerable!
