All things to all men As the people at UKCES find, this means being answerable to ministers of different political persuasions.
Andrea Westlund argues that women could "freely and authentically" be committed to norms that subordinate them, as long as they are answerable to others for their commitment to these norms (e.g., Westlund 2009, 29; see §7 of the current entry).
Less literally, there is a complicated whiff of incense in the religiosity of a show about a woman who, as monarch, is answerable only to God.
He was the first chancellor appointed by the mayor and, as such, was answerable only to him, which gave him power and security.
Even if Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine's convenient flip on the Trans-Pacific Partnership sticks, they will still be, as Obama was, answerable to a political system that puts campaign contributors far ahead of ordinary voters.
In theory, because the commissioner – Britain's leading police officer – has a national function in areas such as counterterrorism and is answerable to the home secretary as well as the mayor and the Metropolitan Police Authority, he could have fought the move.
"I cannot prove it because the Police Department investigates itself, quite as though it were answerable only to itself.
In that environment, Professor Cunningham said, theology as a discipline is "answerable to the church, but also to the demands of the academy".
County Comptroller Howard S. Weitzman, referring to the "vertical" grouping of the agencies in the county's organization chart, testified, "The evidence is overwhelming that the entire vertical has been mismanaged" and operated "as if it were answerable to no one and exempt from county policies and procedures".
The idea that politicians are answerable to God as well as the electorate clearly poses a real challenge to democratic governance, and the outcomes are often notably illiberal.
