Sentence examples for answerable for those from inspiring English sources

The principles were that a) chief constables should be exclusively responsible for decisions to enforce the law in particular cases, b) that they should be answerable for those decisions afterwards to elected public bodies (in the Northern Ireland case, the Policing Board) and, c) the partly elected board should set the budget and the three to five-year strategic priorities for the police service.

Mr Ashley said: "I don't want to criticise Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, they have to take their own decisions and be accountable and answerable for those decisions.

No single agency or individual seemed answerable for the problems.

Somebody has got to be answerable for this.

"Somebody has got to be answerable for this," he said.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Sarbanes-Oxley also restructured how auditing was handled to give the process more independence, effectively made executives and directors answerable for the financial integrity of their companies and codified legal and civic penalties for noncompliance.