The Sultan acknowledged the fact that the church had proved to be the most enduring element in the Byzantine world, and he gave the Patriarch of Constantinople an unprecedented measure of temporal authority by making him answerable for all Christians living under Ottoman rule.
Rylands v Fletcher contained the principle that "the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape", with a requirement that this use of land be "non-natural".
The military, or rather military leaders, do have a voice in policy discussions, for all that they are answerable to the civilian leadership.
As well as a governing body, heads may find themselves answerable to an executive headteacher, who has responsibility for all the schools in the chain.
In this position he was responsible for all NSDAP appointments, and was answerable only to Hitler.
Yet for all his protestations that King George's hospitality does not imply a guarantee of immunity for Mr Mara, Tonga's judiciary remains answerable first and foremost to the king, not the elected government.
The N.F.L. is answerable to all sorts of people, but boxing is free to focus on the true believers and ignore everyone else.
Such limits wouldn't reduce the Supreme Court's power directly, but it would help us see the Court for what it has become — a deeply political institution, as fallible as any other, and answerable, when all is said and done, to us.
Banking functions must be confined to banking institutions answerable at all times to regulatory authorities.
We should do what numerous other countries, including Britain, Germany, Canada and Australia, have done: set up an independent corporation answerable to all aviation interests commercial, general, airport and passenger.
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.
