Sentences with answerable
an·swer·a·ble
A a - Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them. [+ to]
- He must be made answerable for these terrible crimes. [+ for]
- Will the merged entity be a government department answerable to the community or a corporate entity answerable to no one?.
- Many eminent lawyers cannot understand why Saddam was not brought to justice and made answerable for his crimes before the International.
- answerable for someone's safety
- An answerable argument
- I do not believe anyone has the right to judge my morals; there is only one maker that I am answerable to.
- The bulwark of freedom the jury represents ultimately resides in the fact that it cannot be directed to convict and is answerable only to.
- He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- A question answerable by mail.
- The punished officers have supervisors and bosses right up to their departmental chiefs who are in turn answerable to their ministers.
- The corporation, the port's landlord, is a statutory authority answerable to the Minister for Transport and the Treasurer.
- The amount is not answerable to my needs.
- Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
- What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? --Holland.
- The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. --Johnson.