answer to
Verb
Meaning
To be accountable or responsible to; to account to; to report to.
I'm above you in the hierarchy, Jim, so you should be answering to me.
To justify oneself to (someone). (usually with have to)
You're going to have to answer to all of these charges to my satisfaction.
To respond to (a name); to treat as one's own name.
She's answered to Katie her entire life.
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Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I am able to do this?' To which question you must from the depth of your heart reply, 'Yes, Lord'
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.
The right answer to a fool is silence.
It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.
Silence is the answer to many things.