Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them.

委员会应对选出他们的那些人作出交代。

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Second, President Obama would not be answerable to the world that so adores him.

其二，当选后的奥巴马不会向这个对他爱宠有加的世界履职尽责。

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He was a great believer in the value of specialisation and the unity of command, that each employee should be answerable to only one other person.

他坚信专业化和指挥单位，每一个雇员应该听命于另一个人。

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

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

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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.

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