Examples of answerable

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The artists depended upon patronage from bishops or priests or from sympathetic architects, who were still answerable to their clerical patrons.
In theory, they are answerable to their investors, but in practice investors have no control over their activities unless they withdraw their investments.
Individuals respect the dignity or status of comembers of their community in part by holding themselves answerable to rights-bearers.
Collectivities of this aggregate kind will not be answerable in the same way to words previously authorized or deeds previously per formed.
My aim is merely to allay worries about holding ethical theories answerable to moral norms in the way that my present proposal does.
In order for such questions to be answerable, however, there has to be certainty that indeed particular observable phenomena are due to transfer.
A research agenda's fecundity can be measured by the number of answerable questions it gives rise to.
The research questions need to be formulated in an understandable and answerable way, and should be limited in number.
He accepted that emperorship was responsible and that he was answerable to a higher power.
Although at first sight this seemed to be a straightforward answerable question it proved not to be so.
Consider: what proportion of all possible information items (including those answerable only by relevant specialists) would those getting all seven information items right actually know?
The three questions in the first set are directly answerable within the framework of the hypothesis.
She is the magazine's new woman of the decade, secure in a new role, but still strictly answerable to the grammar of fashion.
One might still worry that holding ethical theories answerable to morally substantive norms is unreasonable because it begs the question against certain ethical theories.
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