The phrase "answer to the board" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to responding or providing information to a governing body or committee, typically in a formal context.
Example: "The CEO will provide an answer to the board regarding the financial projections for the next quarter."
Alternatives: "response to the board" or "reply to the board".
But that's Nascar 2008, in which even a monarch must answer to the board of directors.
If its fall season fails to attract more viewers -- and advertisers -- Mr. Eisner will have to answer to the board.
But the bottom line is that there will be a curriculum review committee, and it will answer to the board.
"I still want to be in the loop because I have to answer to the board on the project, but I trust her to run with it". Although delegation didn't come to Chloe naturally, she has learned to let go.
The fact that Osmo Vänskä, the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, has weighed in publicly on the dispute gives some idea of the magnitude of the problem: music directors, who are non-union and who answer to the board, are usually expected to stay out of salary disputes.
"The CIO really doesn't want to have to answer to the board of directors about why their organization did not have the latest patches applied, and that's how the hackers got in and stole the data," he says.
"The way it is supposed to be structured is that the management is selected by and answers to the board, and the board decides if they stay or go," he said.
Mr. Klein did not have to answer to the city board, which was rendered toothless by the law, nor did he have to respond to parents, who lost the machinery that allowed their concerns to be heard at the local level and appealed to central officials.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews said this week that the council must answer to the ministerial board and that he had "little confidence in certain senior officers".
(He gave a similar answer to the editorial board of The Cincinnati Enquirer last week).
Mr. Wolfensohn must also answer to the bank's board: the world's richest countries.
