Answerable in a sentence

I'm answerable and you're answerable to the people of Renfrewshire.

According to studies, the lack of formal judicial infrastructure throughout South Sudan has led to many criminal cases being brought before customary courts that are supposed to be subordinate and answerable to the formal, statutory courts.

And in case of breakdowns, the contractors are not answerable.

Fifteen members of the Democratic Caucus have proposed language to be attached to next year’s Supreme Court funding bill requiring the court to adopt new processes for recusals and ethics allegations—essentially answerable to Congress.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a hard-line force answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, oversees the country's ballistic missile arsenal.

Non-public servants answerable to no one had access to confidential business information and those businesses did not know it was happening.

The Church's pastoral leaders are answerable to the Chief Shepherd, and their stewardship consists in proclaiming and defending the word he has entrusted to them.

The music has changed: power has smiled on the ‘Jagaban of Borgu’ and Tinubu is now the President of Nigeria and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, with all the principalities and powers of that exalted office answerable to him.

Water is a publicly-owned utility, answerable to the Scottish Parliament.

Accountability ensures that there are mechanisms in place to track progress, address concerns and hold responsible parties answerable for their actions.

Even if one were to consider that there was a breach of the Procurement Act, is it not the Ministry of Finance that awarded the contracts to be made answerable?

The chairman emphasised that Fubara, by conducting himself as answerable to the people, has set a record difficult to match for upholding accountability and democracy, sustaining public trust, and fostering good governance.

Accordingly, the government brought back clauses enabling citizens to challenge a president’s actions in court, subjecting the president’s office to financial audit and making the president answerable to Parliament.

Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal said the must make the announcement for the sake of a healthy democracy, where people eyeing public office must be answerable to the people.

Answerable to no shareholders, Musk’s privately-held SpaceX reinvented the space-launch industry from the ground up.

But, like water, we are only answerable to the call of temperature: when it is cold, we freeze; and when it is hot, we melt.

But Zakaria could have made an even more telling point – was he not answerable to CNN executives.

Do we wanted it to be funded by its users and therefore free of Government but answerable to the audience?

He has no respect for anyone; he has his Cabinet members terrified of the consequences if they cross him, and he does not think he is answerable to the people of The Bahamas.

It divides the cabinet into legally recognized “blocs,” each led by one of the prime ministers to which each bloc’s cabinet ministers are legally answerable.