The phrase "answerable directly to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is accountable to a specific person or authority without any intermediaries.
Example: "In this organization, all team leaders are answerable directly to the project manager."
Alternatives: "reporting directly to" or "accountable straight to".
But on the other you are answerable directly to the front office, whose interests lie in the other direction.
In brief, only the UK parliament, answerable directly to the UK electorate, should make our laws and only the UK courts should enact those laws.
The director general is answerable directly to Theresa May – leading some in the police to suggest that in effect the NCA is a national police force directly under the control of government.
By tonight, the Yemenis had appointed a senior official answerable directly to Mr. Saleh to oversee Yemeni liaison efforts, and Aden harbor had taken on the appearance of an American outpost.
And that's not all: four days earlier, a Putin decree corralled the governors' 89 provinces into 7 new administrative districts, each overseen by a regional official who is answerable directly to Mr. Putin, and no one else.
Each executive is answerable directly to the supervisory board.Although there have been moves in the American direction in some German executive suites, there are powerful opposing forces, as Ulrich Schumacher, the flamboyant, American-style boss of Infineon, a semiconductor firm, found out last week when he was abruptly ousted by his supervisory board.
The 20 highest-rated news programs in Russia all appear on three networks answerable directly or indirectly to the Kremlin.
The disadvantage is that it is answerable neither to shareholders nor, directly, to the Treasury.
Unlike the police chief in Los Angeles, the sheriff is elected and directly answerable only to the voters.
For much of that period, it was explicitly based on Confucian ideas that, for their time, were very advanced: it is no exaggeration to suggest that China is the home of statecraft and, to this day, still possesses a very sophisticated state (albeit one that has never been directly answerable to the people but rather to a set of values, for the most part Confucian, more recently communist).
Mr Khamenei has publicly toyed with the idea of abolishing the post of president and replacing it with that of a prime minister directly answerable to him.But first Iran's leaders aim to renew their grip on the majlis and boost their legitimacy by holding a poll in uncertain times.
