answer for one's actions

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

It looks at why people generally need Big Brother, if not Big Daddy: because living in the adult world means having to choose and to answer for one's actions.

Therefore I cannot answer for Thomas Skade-Rasmussen Strøbech's actions".

He was given jobs and now he has to answer" for his father's actions.

There is no one answer for any one person.

He never imagined that one day he might answer for his actions, or find himself feeling like one more victim of this war.

For an Israeli, the answer to the government's actions is to keep speaking out.

Post-9/11 Islamophobia demanded that all Muslims answer for the violent actions of a few extremists.

"I believe that we will one day have to answer for our actions — and our inactions.

"Know that you are in our sights and soon every one of you will answer for your actions," the anonymous letter read.

You are the one who has to answer for the actions of your team, and that certainly carries over into the world of entrepreneurship.

We ask for one simple action step.