Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them.

委员会应对选出他们的那些人作出交代。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Every office and officer should be answerable to some other body.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

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.

BBC: Education chief shared by Newport and Blaenau Gwent

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.

ECONOMIST: The church and the law