The phrase "answerable for all the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing accountability or responsibility for a specific set of actions or outcomes.
Example: "As the project manager, I am answerable for all the decisions made during the project."
Alternatives: "responsible for all the" or "accountable for all the".
But while this notion has been 80 entertained, the extreme opposite will be found to have been a far more popular opinion;—I mean the notion that a man is answerable for all the consequences of his acts, or, in other words, that he acts at his peril always, and wholly irrespective of the state of his consciousness upon the matter...
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 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.
Strict liability statutes are proliferating the world over and survive alongside judge-made rules such as that enunciated by the English decision of Ryland v. Fletcher (1868), which held that anyone who in the course of "non-natural" use of his land accumulates thereon for his own purposes anything likely to do mischief if it escapes is answerable for all direct damage thereby caused.
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.
The unique complaint turns the great anxiety of parenthood into a question of legality: Are a mother and father answerable for the crimes of the son?
Finally, Hutton will be answerable for the success or failure of the six-year programme to make all public services available online by the end of this year, and to ensure that reasonable numbers of people use them.
Actually, he has probably done a good thing by insulating himself from his party; otherwise he would be answerable for everything the government has done so far.
And it means being answerable for the dodgy judgment of appointing Mal Brough in the first place.
But Nixon's comments didn't clarify the chain of command, leaving no one person or agency answerable for the potential chaos.
