Sentences with 'answerable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word answerable and other words derived from it.
• « These weaknesses were reflected in one simple fact: there were several times over the centuries when there were rival popes, usually appointed by obedient ecclesiastical officials answerable to kings. »
• « Intendants collected royal taxes and oversaw administration and military recruitment in the regions to which they were assigned; they were not answerable to the local lords. »
• « What united such disparate examples of absolutism as France and Prussia was a shared concept of royal authority. The theory of absolutism was that the king was above the nobles and answerable to no one in his realm, but owed his subjects a kind of benevolent protection and supervision. »