Sentence examples for were answerable from inspiring English sources

Whatever happened to local democratic accountability, where councillors were answerable to their electorate, not to Westminster?

Life was given and life was taken away, and we were answerable only to ourselves.

"I cannot prove it because the Police Department investigates itself, quite as though it were answerable only to itself.

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

But the charges served notice that the company's servants were responsible for their actions toward those they governed, and for these actions they were answerable to Parliament.

This body and its powers were enlarged in 1828, but responsibility still lay with the governors, who were answerable only to the Colonial Office in London.

The answer is ANSWERABLE.

I am answerable to them".

"Yet no one is answerable!

He's answerable to me.

They are answerable to parliament".