• The chief of the general staff should be answerable to the defence minister, not the other way round.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey and its army

  • Every office and officer should be answerable to some other body.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Mr Harris, who has been head of education at Newport for the last two years, will be answerable to the two councils which will share the cost of his salary.

    BBC: Education chief shared by Newport and Blaenau Gwent

  • In Italy the church still enjoys a sort of immunity, for cultural reasons, but Italians will surely one day insist that their religion should be answerable to the law of the land.

    ECONOMIST: The church and the law

  • To boil it down, there is a resonance to the idea that because taxpayers rescued Lloyds and RBS, their boards should now report to all of us and be answerable to all of us.

    BBC: Bank casino capitalism for all

  • They have to be answerable to this parliament.

    BBC: Pakistan: PM Gilani denies he is to sack army chief

  • There will be the inevitable perception (if not the reality) that they will be answerable to their commands if something goes wrong with the trial, the jury fails to convict or the sentence is deemed too lenient.

    FORBES: Does A Military Trial For KSM Make Any Sense?

  • We want the police to be answerable directly to the residents they serve, not to remote target-setters and bean-counters in London SW1.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Text of Michael Howard's speech

  • Since sovereignty resides in the American people, judges, especially those who presume to exercise political power, should be made answerable to the citizens whom they wish to rule.

    ECONOMIST: Disappointment at Potsdam

  • There is strong support in Westminster for many of the lord chancellor's duties to be transferred to an elected minister answerable to MPs.

    BBC: Lord Irvine: A 'blunder' too far?

  • The best that can be hoped for is that shareholders, rating agencies and the media will increase the pressure for boards to be more transparent, and thereby more answerable to their shareholders.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate governance in Germany

  • It suggests the new body should be independent of the government, but answerable to a House of Commons select committee.

    BBC: Researchers publish anti-fraud plans

  • It should be set up as an independent corporation, owned by and answerable to all the aviation interests, commercial and general.

    FORBES: The Austrian Solution

  • The government says that the existing service, answerable to the cabinet secretary in London, can be the obedient servant of whatever combination of parties happens to rule in Westminster, Cardiff or Edinburgh.

    ECONOMIST: Sunshine and showers

  • The thinking was that there would never be any meaningful development in Sierra Leone until a strong army, answerable to a democratically-elected government, was in place.

    BBC: 'Building an army can be aid too'

  • Nowadays this force is answerable to state governors, but its spirit continues to be shaped by its time as a branch of the army during Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • As well as the timing and wording of the ballot, the two sides have disagreed on whether the voting age should be lowered for the referendum (Mr Salmond says that it should) and whether it should be overseen by the Electoral Commission, which Nationalists testily point out is answerable to the Westminster Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish independence

  • The army might be motivated by venial desires to protect its power and patronage, but the fact that Morsi is ultimately answerable to Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and defense minister, means his ability to construct any kind of theocracy is severely limited.

    CNN: An Islamic state in Egypt can still mean democracy

  • In the event, Winters' vocal unhappiness at the governance of the CIO, that it was a discreet trading operation answerable only to Dimon, and whose deployment of the bank's precious capital could not be scrutinised by other senior executives, was one of the reasons he was pushed out of the bank in the summer of 2009.

    BBC: Should JP Morgan have listened to Winters?

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