Sentence examples for would be answerable for from inspiring English sources

Actually, he has probably done a good thing by insulating himself from his party; otherwise he would be answerable for everything the government has done so far.

No, this was a guy who let others ask the questions and, from the picture he presented to MPs, didn't get too bogged down in the detail, even when the matters at hand were those for which he would be answerable.

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

RBS would be answerable to the regulator until the Dutch and other watchdogs were comfortable with the consortium members taking over their shares of the business.

GPs would be answerable to their patients, not the officials; hospitals – local authority or voluntary – would be part of a nationally co-ordinated system, but independent.

The group, led by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Mr. Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, contended that the treaty would require the United States to cede some of its sovereignty to an international prosecutor who would be answerable to no one and could initiate capricious prosecutions of American officials and military officers.

Presumably, an independent regulator would be insulated from political pressure, whereas an accountable regulator would be answerable to political authorities.

The CFPA would be answerable to consumers -- not to banks and not to Wall Street.

The idea that Chinese central planners would be answerable to the larger market forces is something Mao or Zhou Enlai would have found revolting.

When those in positions of power use this power to serve individual ends they would be unlikely to implement systems where management must act as a role model or be answerable for actions taken [ 38].

"Somebody has got to be answerable for this," he said.