Sentence examples for and answerable from inspiring English sources

These agents will not treat themselves as authoritative and answerable for their conduct; rather, the way in which they answer for themselves (if they do so at all) will be governed by the reasons of the agents to whom they defer.

Its members are appointed by the mayor and answerable only to him.

The Scottish place will be directly controlled by and answerable to Dugdale, strengthening her power base within Labour.

Top army officials, unaccustomed to anything but a ceremonial role and answerable ultimately to the king of Nepal, refused.

A new chief executive, chosen by and answerable to the Barclays, and with newspaper as well as commercial experience, is a high priority.

Instead, he is setting up a shadow court system outside the reach of either Congress or America's judiciary, and answerable only to himself.

Internet Relay Chat networks tended to be noncommercial, hosted by universities and private individuals and not answerable to corporate standards of online conduct.

"As far as I can see they seem to be above the law and not answerable to anybody and it has got to stop," she said.

Universities and teaching hospitals are not fiscally linked because they receive funding from and are answerable to different government departments – the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department of Health, respectively.

Sarbanes-Oxley also restructured how auditing was handled to give the process more independence, effectively made executives and directors answerable for the financial integrity of their companies and codified legal and civic penalties for noncompliance.

An 80-page scheme proposed last month would vest authority in four tiers of government below the provincial level, with some seats reserved for women and lots of mechanisms to make representatives and bureaucrats answerable to ordinary people.