Sentence examples for being answerable from inspiring English sources

For instance, a just system of criminal law must convict and punish only those who are responsible, in the sense of being answerable for their crimes: only those who have the capacities necessary to answer for their actions, who are bound by this criminal law, and who are answerable to the political community whose law it is and whose courts call them to answer.

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

During one exchange, as she argued Westminster was answerable for Northern Ireland, Mr FitzGerald retorted that "for 50 years they had not regarded themselves as being answerable".

In Turkumpoor, a village in a particularly militant-infested area, residents described being answerable to the Indian security forces by day, and militants by night.

All things to all men As the people at UKCES find, this means being answerable to ministers of different political persuasions.

For Mr. Signoles, who does not spend a cent on advertising and whose privately owned company has the luxury of not being answerable to shareholders, the book is symbolic.

Only in this way, Heidegger adds, can the human being be answerable or responsible (verantwortlich).

I am answerable to them".

"Yet no one is answerable!

He's answerable to me.

They are answerable to parliament".