Sentence examples for would be answerable to from inspiring English sources

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.

Newcastle's super-scout was widely regarded as de facto director of football before Joe Kinnear's shock appointment to that newly formalised role and had been considering his position on learning he would be answerable to the former Wimbledon manager.

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.

If Mr. Comey took charge, it would avoid the time-consuming prospect of appointing a special counsel who would then have semi-independence to investigate the case, but would still be answerable to the attorney general.

Mr Obama still definitely has the edge, but opinion at home diverges sharply from that in most of the rest of the world.Second, President Obama would not be answerable to the world that so adores him.

In a television interview after the Parliament session, Mr. Ahmed said the alliance remained opposed to many of General Musharraf's constitutional amendments, to his remaining president and chief of staff of the army, and to his plan for a National Security Council that would not be answerable to Parliament.

The proposed law says nothing about an independent monitoring committee, so the authorities would not be answerable to anyone when it comes to data-gathering, and can cut off access to both telephones and internet where it is deemed necessary.

A European diplomat at Nato added: "We're talking about a hi rep figure, that would not just be answerable to the UN".