But ASEAN's old guard opted for immediate integration, in effect making itself answerable for the other nations' advancement.
The prime minister was also correct to observe that it is to Parliament and the people that he is ultimately answerable for his political judgments.
The VLA is an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and reports to the Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, who is answerable to Parliament for it.
Addressing over-delegation of regulatory lawmaking power, perhaps ore than any other step, will prioritize the issue of benefits by making Congress accountable, answerable to voters, for the vast body of rules issued by unelected bureaucrats.
MPs complain that they cannot exert any leverage or get any answers, with ministers insisting UKFI is an arm's length body for which they are not answerable.
They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable.
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.
Instead he is arguing that they should take responsibility for setting up a new parades type commission, answerable to Stormont not the Northern Ireland Office.
Yet for all his protestations that King George's hospitality does not imply a guarantee of immunity for Mr Mara, Tonga's judiciary remains answerable first and foremost to the king, not the elected government.
The best that can be hoped for is that shareholders, rating agencies and the media will increase the pressure for boards to be more transparent, and thereby more answerable to their shareholders.
There is strong support in Westminster for many of the lord chancellor's duties to be transferred to an elected minister answerable to MPs.
In Italy the church still enjoys a sort of immunity, for cultural reasons, but Italians will surely one day insist that their religion should be answerable to the law of the land.
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