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Answerable   /ˈænsərəbəl/   Listen
Answerable

adjective
1.
Capable of being answered.
2.
Morally or legally responsible to a higher authority.



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"Answerable" Quotes from Famous Books



... opposition under a one-party system and stood for reelection in Angola's first multiparty elections in 28-29 September 1992, the last elections to be held, (next to be held NA); prime minister appointed by the president and answerable to the Assembly election results: DOS SANTOS received 49.6% of the total vote, making a run-off election necessary between him and second-place finisher Jonas SAVIMBI; the run-off was not held and SAVIMBI's National Union for the Total ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... such men as have disgraced the holy calling by fire and sword and persecution. And if one can draw a free breath in this new land. The English with all their faults allow freedom in religion. It is these hated Jesuits. And I believe they are answerable for the murder of our ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas
... regarde of their beautifull and lofty building, resembled stately pallaces, their inward rich furniture being altogether answerable ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... set forth a red flower that you know or have seen, you shall take the pot of preserv'd gilliflowers, and suiting the colours answerable to the flower, you shall proportion it forth, and lay the shape of a flower with a purslane stalk, make the stalk of the flower, and the dimensions of the leaves and branches with thin slices of cucumbers, ...
— The accomplisht cook - or, The art & mystery of cookery • Robert May
... expressly condemns,—just as all nations have practised many things which their codes of morals or laws condemn. The question is whether in the one case the Book, or in the other case the codes, approve them; not, I presume, whether man is a very inconsistent animal. But no system is made answerable for the violations of ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers


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