Parents are answerable for their child's acts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Besides, the Emperor thought, that this was the only title answerable to its high destination. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II] Reference
Either the Police Authorities are "answerable" with elected representatives (even nominees by local authorities), or they are stuffed with apparatchiks. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Post subject: How do I find out who my college is "answerable" t. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
My own feeling is that the problem of evil is not an "answerable" question. From Wordnik.com. [David Michael Bruno] Reference
"answerable" to the public over his success in doing so at the next election. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
I will be answerable for all your charges in the matter. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
A given state may not be answerable to any actual given power. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
It might be asked, then is a man answerable for every expression?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
I'm not answerable to him, nor any man, for what I says and does. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
And his progress in virtue was answerable to his zealous endeavors. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Spirit, and answerable again at a future time for their new offences. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
"No. I can take care of myself; but I would not be answerable for you.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
Moytoy should be made answerable to Sir Alexander for his behaviour to them. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Here, one powder, not more, or I'll not be answerable for the consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
"The government should be answerable to ordinary human beings who live on earth!". From Wordnik.com. [The New Face of Islam] Reference
We're all answerable to the supreme power -- even the president of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Double Disaster?] Reference
The Vedanta board's response was that they were not "answerable to the British government". From Wordnik.com. [Bianca Jagger: Let's Save the Real Avatar] Reference
The story of the French vicomte is really answerable for my present horrible state of mind. '. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Even so, the broader social will may come to regard states as answerable for their decisions. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The engineer or senior man on duty is answerable for this regulation being carried into effect. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
The fourth enclosed the most superb horse furniture, answerable to the magnificence of the arms. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
It is not always the wholly selfish wrongdoer who is answerable for the greater sorrows of life. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Constitution, creating an agency -- the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- that is answerable to no one. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodd-Frank Act: Creative Destruction, Destroyed] Reference
One only is wanting, whom our eyes saw whelmed amid the waves; all else is answerable to thy mother's words. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Every man is his own master in his choice of liaisons, and on that head is answerable only to his own conscience. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The want of training in working-class families is largely answerable for the waifs and strays with which our cities team. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
If anything is lost in the house, the boy, being answerable, is supposed to make the loss good, although he seldom does so. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
While we stand on our old ground, and insist on redress of grievances, we know we are right, and are not answerable for consequences. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
This book is in charge of the superior on duty at the time; and the foreman and engineers are answerable for its being correctly kept. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
Today, in all civilized states, the Government is morally answerable for those activities of its subjects which have international results. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
If the court voids the ordinance, Bhutto may be answerable to serious corruption charges dating back to her two terms as premier in the 1990s. From Wordnik.com. [A Dramatic Return] Reference
That makes him answerable to his party, and with such a reduced majority, some vocal Labour MPs are already pushing to remove him from the premiership. From Wordnik.com. [Bitter Victory] Reference
Now he has one answering the other: "Thou hast made summer and winter; thou hast made the warm beams of thy sun answerable to the cold of the dark night.". From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
The IAEA is neither a spy agency nor a police force; it is an international organization answerable to the same countries it is supposed to be inspecting. From Wordnik.com. [Risky Business] Reference
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