How To Use Answerable In A Sentence

He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
To put it in religious language, the scientist is answerable to a very stern and peremptory magisterium, the magisterium of Nature herself.
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We present them the example of France as an unanswerable proof that one great nation can maintain bimetallism, and that by maintaining it she escaped the worst evils that have affected the monometallic countries, and assured for herself an extraordinary progress and prosperity. If Not Silver, What?
Instead I argued that such ultimate questions are not answerable, at least by anyone in our contemporary conversation.

The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '. Times, Sunday Times
The company remains shielded from freedom of information laws and is answerable to 100 members drawn from the rail industry and members of the public. Times, Sunday Times
There were baffling, unanswerable teasers such as: why is a left foot either ‘trusty’ or ‘educated’ but a right foot is neither?
You're answerable to the people who run the club. The Sun
He said it was of great concern to him that unqualified practitioners in healthcare were not answerable to any regulatory authority.
An employer is answerable for the negligence of his employees.
The godfather of Argentine football is now directly answerable for its success or failure. Times, Sunday Times
The Chief Justice is not answerable to the Prime Minister nor any other politician or group of politicians, not even the Parliament.
Rather, it presents a collection of ideas and findings by people who have been grappling with big, unanswerable questions all their lives.
_] He was tall of stature, and well proportioned, faire and comelie of face, so as in his countenance appeared much fauour and grauitie, of haire bright aborne, as it were betwixt red and yellow, with long armes, and nimble in all his ioints his thighes and legs were of due proportion, and answerable to the other parts of his bodie. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
Being sole traders, they are answerable to no one else within the business.
It is rational, but scientifically unanswerable and hence uninteresting.
Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed. The Sermons of John Owen
The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
Governments won't negotiate, but in most countries governments are answerable to their people.
In trials, booksellers and publishers were often answerable for the actions of servants, shop workers, and family members, implying that the Stationer held ultimate responsibility.
The case for better public transport is unanswerable .
We stop asking answerable questions, and are left with the important ones; the ones we can't answer.
My own feeling is that the problem of evil is not an "answerable" question. David Michael Bruno
With his current superb form, he presents an unanswerable case for selection in the team.
Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them.
But I recommend this to you, — that if this be a truth, and we are convinced it is our duty to labour to affect our hearts with a sense of the unanswerableness of our souls, and the frame of our minds unto the will of God and the holiness of Christ, who is coming to visit his churches, — “What manner of persons ought we to be?” Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved
Nevertheless, it is a common error, which we shall meet again, to leap from the premise that the question of God's existence is in principle unanswerable to the conclusion that his existence and his non-existence are equiprobable. The God Delusion
The answer is they're not really part of the campaign, so no one knows who's answerable for those ads.
In theory, ministers decide and are answerable for policy.
Besides, the Emperor thought, that this was the only title answerable to its high destination. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
But if it has Security Council authority it must be answerable to the Security Council and obliged to report to it
The third question is unanswerable because the small print has not yet been published. Times, Sunday Times
The documentary obviously wanted to know why he did it, but for a while it looked as if the question would be unanswerable. Times, Sunday Times
Why City have not embraced this competition is one of football's great unanswerable questions. The Sun
The unanswerable question is why. Times, Sunday Times
It is always answerable to some set of independently specifiable practical goals.
But the point of having it use accrual accounting is to make its true financial situation more transparent to everyone, and thus to discipline it by making politicians answerable to better-informed voters. Milton Friedman on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
What he would have done in life had he not found his niche in show business is the great unanswerable question. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
She paced around her bedroom waiting for answers to questions which were unanswerable.
To him it means being personally answerable for everything that happens in government (and dismissing whomever he can blame).
Instead, they were answerable to a complex of hereditary or franchise jurisdictions in the hands of the feudal nobility.
The advantage being that the architect was independent and answerable to the end user meant that quality in design and construction was assured.
So they can escape the righteousness of God, which they have provoked, they regard not their unanswerableness unto his holiness, whereby they are polluted. Pneumatologia
They are answerable to no democratic mandate, so are unrestrained by the will of ordinary people.
I am answerable to the headmaster for any action I take.
I cudgelled my wits for some other objection, and hit on one that seemed unanswerable. THE NUMBERS
Therefore all questions posed about entities outside the universe are ultimately unanswerable, though proposed answers vary in their plausibility.
With his current superb form, he presents an unanswerable case for selection in the team.
Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘raca’ an Aramaic term of contempt, is answerable to the Sanhedrin. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
The Cabinet would be responsible to the President, but answerable to Parliament.
They accepted, in other words, that the king of France was an absolute monarch who shared his power with nobody, and was only answerable to God for its exercise.
Can I remind her and other members of the Council that they are elected to be responsible to the council tax payers of Bradford and are supposedly answerable to them.
It is surely an unanswerable case that the future status and governance of the organisation - of any organisation - should be determined precisely by how it conducts itself.
If God chargeth his very angels with folly, that is, an unanswerableness unto his infinite holiness and wisdom, -- what can poor mortal men expect, that dwell in houses of clay, that are crushed before the moth? The Sermons of John Owen
Why City have not embraced this competition is one of football's great unanswerable questions. The Sun
The only way to have a free country is to make politicians answerable to the people. The Sun
Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.” Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill
To be of such authority that your verdict on every subject under heaven is absolute and final is without doubt to be in a proud position, but, like all proud positions, it bristles with pitfalls and drawbacks to the weak-kneed; and most of my conversations with the babies end in a sudden change of subject made necessary by the tendency of their remarks and the unanswerableness of their arguments. The Solitary Summer
Judging by his alchemy and religious writings, which considerably outnumber those concerned with scientific matters, he clearly believed that some of these questions were answerable by other methods.
Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers. Fables
As the bailee recovered the whole value of the goods, the old reason, that he was answerable over, has in some cases become a new rule, (seemingly based on a misunderstanding,) that the bailee is a trustee for the bailor as to the excess over his own damage. The Common Law
People can be left feeling rejected, isolated and always having to deal with the unanswerable question of why.
Managers make key executive decisions about the running of companies and they are answerable to a board of directors.
In a sense people are seeking, looking for answers to life's seemingly unanswerable questions. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
It is an unanswerable question without one crucial piece of information. Times, Sunday Times
One of the beauties of adult life is no longer having to be answerable to others in the way that we are when we're younger, and another is enjoying the vantage point of the outsider once it's stripped of its socially demeaning cachet.
On the basis of these instruments it was recommended that Kazakhstan should introduce in its Criminal Code an article which would provide for making recruiters and souteneurs answerable for their activity.
The case for acting on the basis of good intelligence to discover and prevent terrorism is obviously unanswerable.
We do not flourish in fruitfulness, in savouriness, and profitableness, answerable to what the dispensations of God have been towards us; for the dew of God hath been upon us from time to time. The Sermons of John Owen
He even considered the possibility of converting his uncle, and spent the Sunday evening before term began in framing inexpugnable arguments to be preceded by unanswerable questions; but always when he was on the point of speaking he was deterred by the lifelessness of his uncle. The Altar Steps
The leaders of these parties were answerable to and removable by the Comintern centre.
Formal police accountability mechanisms Police accountability is the constitutional mechanism which makes the police answerable for their actions.
A separate planned shake-up of Executive departments would aim to ensure that civil servants are only answerable to one minister.
If mediocre students pray for easily answerable question papers, the bright ones seek good memory power.
Being 'answerable' to the culture meant, in this context, something like 'giving permission' – as we'd now say – to the artist to raise issues, to give room for voices that might otherwise be suppressed. University of Chichester, Bishop George Bell lecture
It's time our senior police officers were made answerable to the people who fund their early retirement. The Sun
Because no attempts were made to re-interview informants, we are left with questions that are either unanswerable or the answers to which can only be deduced from other informants' replies.
The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '. Times, Sunday Times
The questions should be specific enough that they can be answerable in specific terms.
The documentary obviously wanted to know why he did it, but for a while it looked as if the question would be unanswerable. Times, Sunday Times
It's certainly a humbler and more answerable question.
Ultimately Governors decide whether matters will be referred to the police and social services and are answerable for discharging their duty of care.
The case for mandatory reporting seems unanswerable. Times, Sunday Times
After drinking too much wine, and finding it a little difficult to type, the dizzy blonde returns to ponder the biggest, most unanswerable question of all, in every situation.
What he would have done in life had he not found his niche in show business is the great unanswerable question. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions. Little Women
Now you could argue that a political leader is not responsible for all the hopes invested in him or her, any more than Brad Pitt or Madonna are answerable for the dreams of their fans.
They are exclusively answerable to Parliament and have to present an annual report on their activity.
There are one or two in the know who think me "venturesome" but, after all, is not "nothing venture nothing win" an unanswerable retort? Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
However, the bill does not require members to be representative of the local population or answerable to it.
Answerable only to themselves, the uniformed militia nonetheless provided the only martial experience for thousands of otherwise untutored citizen-soldiers who would volunteer for the next war.
The question is probably not answerable in any very specific way.
I'm going to ask Dick the unanswerable show business question, what works?
Why don't you spend more time writing what you're supposed to be writing, and less time making up unanswerable questions that make us look like we don't know what we're talking about?
Soldiers who obey orders to commit atrocities should be answerable for their crimes.
These questions are not unanswerable. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Yet, in our view, such problems are answerable whereas the scientific evidence for an old Earth and old universe seems unanswerable.
Any European central bank should be directly answerable to the European Parliament.
It is an unanswerable question without one crucial piece of information. Times, Sunday Times
If I was the head coach, the other rugby people should be answerable to me. Times, Sunday Times
It is not a direct promise to pay; but it is an undertaking, by the drawer, that the drawee shall accept and pay; and the drawer is answerable only when the drawee fails to pay. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
Any European central bank should be directly answerable to the European Parliament.
But that conjured up another question, which was not as answerable as the first.
They spoke of the masque that night, and one man dispraised it with cutting phrases that seemed unanswerable. Wildfire
Although the initial horror has passed, the news cycle-with its insatiable appetite, continues to demand to be fed with more stories, more coverage, more answers to unanswerable questions.
The Secretary of State remains answerable to Parliament and the everyday pressures of political life, concerned with services rather than management prerogatives.
The third question is unanswerable because the small print has not yet been published. Times, Sunday Times
The question, though, that I m asking, is not so much how these crimes are handled - it s more the unanswerable question of why are these crimes happening?
State as the expression of her ‘other-worldly’ sentiment, then monasticism has indeed conquered in her; but if we see, in the manner in which she to-day maintains this attitude, an essential secularisation, then it is precisely the Jesuitic monasticism which is to be made answerable therefor. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
Soldiers who obey orders to commit atrocities should be answerable for their crimes.
This is a sum of money allowed for College chambers to the former occupier, in consideration of repairs or fitting up, and fur - niture, and is frequently transferred from one tenant to another in succession, a tenant* being answerable to a person so repairing or fitting up at two or three removes. — Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
One of the intriguing questions, only partly answerable at present, is why the birds migrate at all.
Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at least unanswerable; this may be observed specially in the two or three commonest kinds of madness.
Post subject: How do I find out who my college is "answerable" t Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
His Grace, Cardinal Law, is currently living incommunicado in a church in Vatican City, which is both a religious and legal hideout, answerable to no one other than the CEO, Benedict, aka Ratzinger, god's own Rottweiler. Child Abuse Convictions and Bankruptcies Have a Silver Lining for Gay People
Unity of command---Each subordinate answerable to only one superior.
But we are in danger of losing the principle, 300 years in the making, that law-makers should be answerable to the people.
Chief executives come and go, never staying long enough to be answerable for their actions.
I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance.
They would ask their mother unanswerable questions.
She was a free agent, answerable to no one for her behaviour.
Formal police accountability mechanisms Police accountability is the constitutional mechanism which makes the police answerable for their actions.
In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.
The only way to have a free country is to make politicians answerable to the people. The Sun
He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions. Little Women
A weblogger has an individuated track record, has ultimate responsibility for the final form of everything that appears in the main body of his site, and is individually answerable for it.
parents are answerable for their child's acts
Their achievements were answerable to expectation.
The second type is a mystery - a question that is not answerable because it is beyond our ability to understand and predict since it depends on so many unknowns or imponderables.
Otherwise, it was a very answerable paper with a good choice of questions.
Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.” Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill
The GMPTE will continue to press what it sees as an unanswerable economic case that the Metrolink extension provides the best solution.
Formal police accountability mechanisms Police accountability is the constitutional mechanism which makes the police answerable for their actions.
This secrecy means that the media cannot tell Wiltshire residents about it, nor tell them that its aim is to partition England into separate regions, all answerable to Brussels.
Science on the other hand normally sticks to the answerable questions, and can afford the luxury of insisting on truth and proof in its reporting.
It is time to make it answerable for all its actions!
I would venture to suggest, that for many families, the notebooks they clutch in their sweaty hands are often more like prayer books that help them search for answers to the often unanswerable questions they face.
In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.
Having just returned from Iceland - a country which sits on top of the site where the two tectonic plates of Europe and America meet - I feel I have confronted evidence which makes the case for global warming virtually unanswerable.
The political argument for restraint is straightforward and, it seems to me, unanswerable.
The only person who could feasibly answer such unanswerable questions would be an actual dead author.
the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism
She is not in thrall to any overarching theory, so the questions she asks remain cogent, real and often unanswerable. Times, Sunday Times
The rail safety inspectorate, which is answerable to the Department of Transport, is now conducting an independent investigation.
On the one hand, it is ultimately answerable to the ruling body of the Central Bank, whose overriding goal is to maintain a stable and solvent financial system.
None of these questions is unanswerable. Times, Sunday Times
A government, a cabinet, has to reach collective decisions, and the person in charge - in this case the Prime Minister - must be answerable for those decisions.
Simply put, it means that you are answerable for your behavior, whether you are guiding a beginning student through initiation into Wicca, or performing a spiritual service for a complete stranger.
The institution will be answerable to the Minister of Labour and Social Policy and will implement state policy on social assistance.
Second is the unanswerable question of which Romans made and consumed comedy. Smithsonian Mag
She is not in thrall to any overarching theory, so the questions she asks remain cogent, real and often unanswerable. Times, Sunday Times
an unanswerable argument
The more our media toes the ANC party line and offers no investigation or resistance, the more we are left with a true one-party state, unquestioned, unchallenged and unanswerable to its people.
But its final gesture is insinuating and unanswerable.
The Crown's case here that they would be in an impossible position if they had to prove both dishonesty and carelessness seems to me unanswerable.
He must be made answerable for these terrible crimes.
The company remains shielded from freedom of information laws and is answerable to 100 members drawn from the rail industry and members of the public. Times, Sunday Times
Each of the district's councillors has about 12,000 constituents to whom we are answerable.
Finally, individuals also benefit from the more recent development of environmental rights established by international law, or may be answerable for international crimes also newly defined by international law.
And so we're going to be faced with all these unanswerable questions, and maybe we won't learn some of the lessons.
Because domestic controls could be deactivated, she believes the answer is to make internet service providers answerable for the access they allow.
In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.
Ikey recognized the unanswerableness of the argument. Apron-Strings
It is the unanswerable question. Times, Sunday Times
But yet, notwithstanding all this, Solomon himself, in his prayer at the dedication of that house, 1 Kings viii. 27, seems to intimate that there was some check upon his spirit, considering the unanswerableness of the house to the great majesty of God. The Sermons of John Owen
By contrast, the exhibition puts forward an unanswerable case for collaborative scholarship and public ownership. The Times Literary Supplement
The case is unanswerable, though the politics are horrid. Times, Sunday Times
The Cabinet would be responsible to the President, but answerable to Parliament.
So, in short, the things that (IMO) made Firefly bad sci fi were: too much sex, not balancing sex with other aspects of human relationships, failure to address the classic problems of the genre (such as FTL travel and terraforming), too much preachiness (for gay rights and for a "naturalistic" worldview, ie atheism), and clumsy treatment of the role of religion in human interactions and the big unanswerable questions. June 2007
These questions are all answerable, to a considerable degree, through research.
Thus the claim by Guinness for repayment is unanswerable.
Many of the biggest corporations do seem ownerless, answerable to no one. Times, Sunday Times
They would ask their mother unanswerable questions.
Private bus operators are answerable for the loss to the State, students, unemployed and the daily wage earners.
The purpose is that those bodies for whose acts the state is answerable before the European Court of Human Rights shall in future be subject to a domestic law obligation not to act incompatibly with Convention rights.
Of course I made it clever and brilliant and all that, with my little unanswerable slings at the state and my social paradoxes, and withal made it concrete enough to dissatisfy the average citizen. Local Color
The second question is not quite so easily answerable.
The original question posed in the title is not really answerable.
Obviously some questions may not yet be answerable with the evidence available.
Second is the unanswerable question of which Romans made and consumed comedy. Smithsonian Mag
While teachers may be "answerable" to parents, in the end teachers have no direct accountability to parents the fact that they should is a discussion for another time. Archive 2006-12-01
As profit-seeking entities answerable to shareholders fixated on growth, the prospect of dismantling those machines is a non-starter. Times, Sunday Times
Lowth's translation, "He was made answerable," is hardly admitted by the Hebrew. opened not ... mouth -- Jer 11: 19; and David in Ps 38: 13, 14; 39: 9, prefiguring Messiah (Mt 26: 63; 27: 12, 14; 1Pe 2: 23). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The godfather of Argentine football is now directly answerable for its success or failure. Times, Sunday Times
But that is unknowable, the unanswerable question.
On the one hand, Christians are 'answerable' to the ambient culture in the sense that they are there not to dictate but to serve; the Church is not a body that arbitrarily sets the agenda for society at large, but seeks to discern what needs it must meet. University of Chichester, Bishop George Bell lecture
The knockout blows came from finding'the unanswerable question '. Times, Sunday Times
Whether or not that makes him less of a French writer may be an unanswerable question. The Times Literary Supplement
Someone has got to answer the unanswerable question.
Democracy might be a flawed process but it was better than handing over control to faceless big business who are not answerable to the voters.
Before this change morals were underpinned by religion and externally imposed, and people were connected to and answerable to family and friends. Times, Sunday Times
I struggle to accept that she is gone and ask unanswerable questions such as: why her? Times, Sunday Times
Dalyell's arguments for immediate recall of parliament seem to me to be unanswerable.
His arguments against the nefarious war were unanswered and unanswerable. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
Yet this very activity is indissociable from making our thought answerable to the world.
We might have been made acquainted with one species of agency only, the physical: and then every result, and our whole progress through existence, would have been with no more accountableness on our part, than the ball would be answerable for its position or direction at any particular moment. Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
I feel far more comfortable concluding a sermon with an inspired call to arms than with an unanswered and perhaps unanswerable question. Christianity Today
The company remains shielded from freedom of information laws and is answerable to 100 members drawn from the rail industry and members of the public. Times, Sunday Times
Before this change morals were underpinned by religion and externally imposed, and people were connected to and answerable to family and friends. Times, Sunday Times

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