Sentence examples for be more answerable from inspiring English sources
TfL must be more answerable to taxpayers and passengers, and provide the information needed to properly examine what it does with its £8 billion budget.
Spies, now less constrained, should be more answerable for their actions; suspects, deprived of their lawyers for longer periods, should eventually have more opportunity to present their case to a judge and, where possible, a jury; and the whole process should be subject to political and judicial review.Precisely the opposite has happened.
Al-Jazeera's mockery of Palestinian negotiators, though overplayed, taps into mounting frustration that their leaders are more answerable to Israel and their Western patrons than their subjects.
The prioritising of story over voice suggests that it's not the aim of Maya's Notebook to plunge the reader into the grim existence of a real-life Maya; this is a tale of revelations and resolutions, and the plot is more answerable to its own turns than to the brutal possibilities of reality.
The main argument for keeping the city treasurer an elected office is that important positions like city council and congressional representatives are elected, and that someone who must stand for election is more answerable to the people.
The best that can be hoped for is that shareholders, rating agencies and the media will increase the pressure for boards to be more transparent, and thereby more answerable to their shareholders.
While there is no real answer to such a question, since at this point it is fundamentally a matter of "taste," one can ask a similar question that is much more answerable.
Just because the founders of web and technology companies are inherently more accessible to us than other CEOs (see Jobs replying to emails or Jimmy Wales and Mark Zuckerbergg's frequent conference appearances) doesn't mean that they are any more answerable to us.
Voters are becoming less tribal and constituency MPs are finding themselves more answerable to then.
The questions, like this one for George Harrison, were similarly obtuse: "George, do you have a cousin named Maggie?" But perhaps more answerable: "No".
