Sentence examples for answerable government from inspiring English sources

We may be linked by a belief in a free society and a popularly answerable government, but our democracies don't mesh — not simply the systems, but the parties.

As the contest deepens between the commission and national governments for domination of the new service, Ashton is stuck in the middle as foreign policy chief answerable to governments while also a vice-president of the commission.

As a charity governed by royal charter, the BFI is currently less answerable to the government than the UKFC was.

Regulators would be answerable to the government under "management contracts", exposing them to political whims.

In future all new schools would be free or academies, answerable to central government.

But the governor in Hong Kong was answerable to the government in London, and so to a democracy.

First came a statement reminding the brass-hats that they were answerable to the government and not vice versa.

Sellafield is run by Nuclear Management Partners – a consortium made up of URS, Areva and Amec – which is answerable to the government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

In fact, the main advantage of public funding for science is "to ensure we have publicly funded people, answerable to democratic government, whose job it is to tell the rest of us what's really going on".

It is hiring authentication experts who, it says, will be answerable only to government officials.

Until the United States backs up its words with actions, it will appear to Egyptians, and the world, that it is choosing short-term security with the Supreme Council of armed Forces (SCAF) over long term support for human rights, civil society, and a just society with a government answerable to the people.