Sentence examples for answerable for the from inspiring English sources

No single agency or individual seemed answerable for the problems.

And it means being answerable for the dodgy judgment of appointing Mal Brough in the first place.

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?

The magazine is not, of course, answerable for the reactionary position in which Hughes became more conspicuously at home following his appointment as poet laureate, and whose latter stages are depressingly recorded in Jonathan Bate's recent biography.

Adamantly refusing the notion that the British writer's portrayal of African barbarity might be excused by his socio-historical context, Achebe makes Conrad, the man, answerable for the offensive stereotypes he promulgates as a writer.

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.

It's terribly easy to be seduced by the luxury of operating outside the game, answerable for nothing, the constant critic who never has to get it right.

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".

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...

'So it was that the company and such of its employees as were confidants were answerable for keeping the nation's secrets, as fully as if they were governed by the oath of a Federal official.

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.