How To Use Unaccountable In A Sentence

  • That is not democracy or power to the people - it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers.
  • But both are tyrannies, utterly unaccountable to the people they rule. The Sun
  • Reserves are cesspools of corruption and all band councils are poorly managed and unaccountable.
  • He is absolutely unaccountable and is never second guessed.
  • Judges are unelected and largely unaccountable. Times, Sunday Times
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  • For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives. The Sun
  • From the way they are built, but oftener from the way they are kept, and from no intelligent inspection whatever being exercised over them, they are almost invariably dens of foul air, and the "servants 'health" suffers in an "unaccountable" (?) way, even in the country. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
  • I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, — and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. — A sentimental journey through France and Italy
  • I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, - and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. A Sentimental Journey
  • For some strange, unaccountable reason, I didn't make the cut.
  • This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • The mechanism for the unusual journey is a simple, unaccountable magical moment.
  • Are we, the North Yorkshire council tax payers, paying heavily for the security of secretive, unaccountable American bases while neglecting our own.
  • Towards the yellow-hammer, or yellow-yite -- bird of beautiful plumage though it be -- because it is the subject of an unaccountable superstitious notion, which credits it with drinking a drop of the devil's blood every May morning, the children of Scotland cherish no inconsiderable contempt, which finds expression in the rhyme: -- Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
  • As he worked a sudden and unaccountable terror took possession of him.
  • perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress
  • The unaccountable failure needled O as he landed in Chicago and noticed again he had not been able to give comfort and encouragement, as he had planned to, to a friend from his past for whom he still felt affection. O: A Presidential Novel
  • Some of the little folks we watch grow up to be young women, and occasionally one of them gets nervous, what we call hysterical, and then that girl will begin to play all sorts of pranks, -- to lie and cheat, perhaps, in the most unaccountable way, so that she might seem to a minister a good example of total depravity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
  • When Knight became leader, the council was run by a clique of officers largely unaccountable to the elected members.
  • The driver was held unaccountable for the accident.
  • Across the Atlantic, the unaccountable power of bankers became a staple of populist campaigning too. Times, Sunday Times
  • When public services are privatized they are more unaccountable; citizens put both long-term rate stability and proper equipment maintenance at risk.
  • There is a bureaucracy and self-feeding hierarchy of senior officials that are completely unaccountable to the local community. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are appointed by foreign governments, and once appointed, politically unaccountable.
  • As long as brands remain unaccountable for conditions in their suppliers' factories, garment workers and their families will suffer. The Sun
  • I noticed they were experiencing the same things as many Papuans - they were in debt to rapacious moneylenders and held to ransom by unaccountable officials.
  • Yet, Commissioners are unelected and the Commission is often portrayed as an unaccountable technocracy.
  • Our chemists have never been able to understand it -- it is always in some kind of reaction no matter what they do, and still it gives off that very light gas, helium, and a heavy gas, niton, and an unaccountable amount of heat. The Black Star Passes
  • The research, prevention and treatment of cancer is too important to be left in the hands of a small number of unaccountable scientists, funded by industry money and the voluntary sector.
  • And, secondly, about those things that more strictly refer to their own character and profession, and which distinguish them from all other professors of Christianity; avoiding two extremes upon which many split, viz. persecution and libertinism, that is, a coercive power to whip people into the temple; that such as will not conform, though against faith and conscience, shall be punished in their persons or estates; or leaving all loose and at large, as to practice; and so unaccountable to all but God and the magistrate. A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers
  • A shadowy figure has appeared on the horizon to put these democratically unaccountable Johnny Come Latelys in their place.
  • And looking over the schedule I am unaccountable for my activities for the next hour, though I do remember talking to Rob Thornton during Marcus Schmickler's set.
  • The meaning of your argument I take to be this: that by the unaccountable success of the enterprize and the tame submission of the people in general, if the scheme misgive all Scotland becomes involved in the guilt, and may expect the outmost severitys this Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
  • There is no government bureaucracy more arrogant, unaccountable, and authoritarian.
  • Today, as an unelected official, he is unaccountable and irremovable.
  • Two casuistries may not a right make, but they may finally offset some of the injustices of fallacious unilateral decisions by an unaccountable court divining "rights" by the 1973 decision. Balkinization
  • The story is a classic tale of an unaccountable bureaucracy versus the little guy.
  • The act occurs as a crazy, unaccountable event which, precisely, is not willed.
  • It cut public spending and confronted unaccountable trade union power, despite criticism from economists. Times, Sunday Times
  • There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
  • When Knight became leader, the council was run by a clique of officers largely unaccountable to the elected members.
  • For some unaccountable reason, someone has pierced a tunnel through the western end of the southern summit rock blade.
  • She also makes unaccountable remarks about African-American visual artists.
  • IN PRACTICE it is widely derided as undemocratic, unaccountable, manipulated, unlistening, and at the end of the day railroaded by the government. Historic Warwick: Comrades, Sisters and Brothers, Colleagues - What Has Been Delivered?
  • Do you think he is doing any better than the 19 of his timeserving, unaccountable colleagues? Michael Smerconish: Instinct of an American Hero
  • The disfigurement of memory occurs, then, as a story that has the potential to exceed its subject's control, to return an endless number of times, in unaccountable and unpredictable ways.
  • The barasingha deer is hysterical and unaccountable. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
  • (for otherwise it seems unaccountable) why Moses there so particularly mentions the creation of the whales, because God had so lately insisted upon the bulk and strength of that creature than of any other, as the proof of his power; and the leviathan is here spoken of as an inhabitant of the sea (v. 31), which the crocodile is not; and Ps. civ. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • A lot of weird, unaccountable things happen over the course of the film.
  • As long as brands remain unaccountable for conditions in their suppliers' factories, garment workers and their families will suffer. The Sun
  • Fears that the euro project is part of some malign plot to foist an unaccountable European superstate upon EU members must be addressed.
  • Yet, Commissioners are unelected and the Commission is often portrayed as an unaccountable technocracy.
  • Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world. Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Cassian himself dwells on the horrible liability of the monks to the principal vices which infest human nature — gluttony, uncleanness, avarice, anger, vainglory, pride — above all, that despairing and unaccountable melancholy which they call acedia, and describe as “the demon that walketh in the noonday.” Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • That is not democracy or power to the people - it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers.
  • But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives.
  • The clause is a powerful tool, created to protect the will of the people from unaccountable judges, and give the members of our federation a little working room to make laws that reflect their community values.
  • Caroline Lynch makes a strong impression as Lady Macbeth but the truncated text allows her little room for development and so her collapse and death feel sudden and unaccountable.
  • For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives. The Sun
  • Nor should they be unelected and unaccountable to the public over whose lives they have control. The Sun
  • This caricature of socialism is played up by wealthy businessmen whose enterprises are run from top to bottom by unaccountable officials, stamping their prejudices and favouritisms on the people who do the work.
  • As long as brands remain unaccountable for conditions in their suppliers' factories, garment workers and their families will suffer. The Sun
  • They are the unelected, the unscrutinized and the unaccountable. Globe and Mail
  • The media, which calls other powers to account, is itself a vast, largely unregulated, wholly unaccountable power.
  • The report also slams confusing parking signs and unaccountable wardens. The Sun
  • I had an unaccountable prostration of strength which they called influenza, but which, I believe, was nothing but some obstruction in the liver. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
  • A huge proportion of voters are making it clear they are fed up with meddling by undemocratic and unaccountable Eurocrats. The Sun
  • Last Wednesday demonstrated that we have gone beyond the problems posed by the West Lothian Question proper and are now confronted by a contingent of rogue MPs who are as mercenary as they are unaccountable.
  • Unfortunately for us, we have only begun to witness the consequences of this ghastly misuse of unaccountable power.
  • Doctors still remain largely unaccountable to the public.
  • For some unaccountable reason, it struck me as extremely funny.
  • Economic policy in Europe should not be run by an unaccountable committee of governors of central banks.
  • In the absence of effective laws as in the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, they are totally unaccountable.
  • He is unaccountable, except in those rare cases when he bats in interleague games played under National League rules.
  • They are largely unaccountable to the people whose lives they affect, and deaf to non-economic issues.
  • This should also be the last election decided by the whims and conflicts of interest of 32 publicly unaccountable officials.
  • Many different cultures struggled to come up with the means of providing some kind of realistic feedback to such unaccountable leaders.
  • He quotes from the incandescent love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve with a startling but unaccountable urgency.
  • Do you think he is doing any better than the 19 of his time-serving, unaccountable colleagues?
  • Motivation is one of the movie's troubling weaknesses - Cordier's shift in behavior is, to tell the truth, sudden and unaccountable.
  • This bill leaves those decisions to an unelected and unaccountable committee that meets behind closed doors.
  • He can provide mountains of evidence of waste, corruption and sheer incompetence by unaccountable officials. The Sun
  • Although they dictate NHS policy on cancer, they are unaccountable to parliament or the public.
  • Often they are unaccountable to voters - who rarely turn out for elections affecting the districts even when they have the opportunity - or even to the governments that created them.
  • For some unaccountable reason, he keeps his wallet in his underwear drawer.
  • For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives. The Sun
  • Yet this idea of genius, reinforced by our image of it, implies an acceptance of the influence upon creativity of a divine or otherworldly thing, of the transfiguring influence of something unaccountable and mysterious.
  • You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
  • For some unaccountable reason, it struck me as extremely funny.
  • It is entirely incompatible with the domination of unaccountable private companies that seek to monopolise knowledge in the interests of their own profits.
  • They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance.
  • For some unaccountable reason , he arrived a day early.
  • Are you experiencing an unaccountable desire for a donkey ride? Times, Sunday Times
  • And all of these imbeciles remain unaccountable after refusing to resign in light of their own struggles with morality. Jenny Sanford moving out of governor's mansion
  • Justices, who operate in secret, and who are unaccountable to anyone so long as they do not commit an impeachable offense, have never struck me as good judges of matters relating to secrecy.
  • Although local concerns need to be fully taken into account, central government should not devolve responsibility to local authorities, nor to unaccountable transport grandees.
  • Or could it be that it was a contest judged by one thoroughly unaccountable person?
  • Online petitions don't talk to leadership: leadership ignores them precisely because they are so unaccountable.
  • Nor should they be unelected and unaccountable to the public over whose lives they have control. The Sun
  • This does not, however, justify the enterprise of crafting law for others to whom they are completely unaccountable.
  • Its unaccountable power leads inevitably to corruption, which already provokes widespread unrest. Times, Sunday Times
  • It would render the rich and powerful unaccountable. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, minor infractions have gone unpunished leading to the idea that we are unaccountable for our actions.
  • Sequestering this great power in an unaccountable governing agency subverts democracy itself by treating citizens as children.
  • Judges are unelected and largely unaccountable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those issues have exposed the unaccountable nature of our Government.
  • It is centrally controlled and unaccountable except through a disembodied digital voting system administered by the central authority.
  • For some unaccountable reason, it struck me as extremely funny.
  • The first is professional hubris: doctors were arrogant and unaccountable.
  • They also point out that these drivers are unaccountable and untraceable.
  • They remain works with nowhere to go, which seems part of their unaccountable and unaccommodated power to disturb. The Times Literary Supplement
  • They're quite unaccountable and irresponsible when it comes to litigation, and they can fight on on the taxpayers' money indefinitely.
  • And most of all, there is the unaccountable cruelty, incompetence and stupidity of people.
  • They argue that the charter is un-democratic because it supposedly takes power away from the democratically elected representatives and gives it to unaccountable judges.
  • But at the High Court this month he won what can only be described as a pyrrhic victory, ending his battle against what he and many others see as the closed and unaccountable world of private hospitals.
  • The conduct of some mothers in depriving their helpless offspring of the care and kindness which none but a mother can feel, is to me unaccountable. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
  • In saltana, there are no citizens, only subjects, while the ruler is unaccountable except to God.
  • SUCH unaccountable exercising of power has not gone unnoticed by voters. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be even less democracy, as more judges and other unaccountable figures are given authority to supervise elected politicians.
  • For some unaccountable reason, he keeps his wallet in his underwear drawer.
  • In a representational democracy we demand that the political process be open to public scrutiny and generally free from private, particularistic, unseen, and unaccountable actions.
  • But his hearings raise the question of why such critical areas have remained so… unaccountable.
  • These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
  • Not only is there a health risk, one as yet unquantified, but the move would place the supply of crops in the hands of unaccountable corporations who, with the NGOs, would control Africa's food stocks.
  • O'Connor, for my taste, is the great artist of the group, with a purity and intensity of ambition that is utterly idiosyncratic and unaccountable.
  • If these assumptions go unchallenged, humanitarian intervention will become a soothing name for unilateral and unaccountable exercises of power.
  • But, for some unaccountable reason, he recalled the riflemen before they fired. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services
  • All these will be bitterly resisted by the unaccountable and unelected Brussels elite. The Sun
  • Both she and her father had demonstrated an unaccountable immunity to the cold water the day before, but this morning she was only playing at the edge.
  • But ecclesiastical power without moral authority merely exposes the hollowness of an unaccountable, self-perpetuating clerisy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The last thing on anyone's mind should be having to deal with a mindless, self-appointed, unaccountable mob holding the country to ransom.
  • When Knight became leader, the council was run by a clique of officers largely unaccountable to the elected members.
  • Instead they will leap at the chance to hand matters over to an inquiry, where a judge or some other apparently neutral, unaccountable figure can spend months or years establishing ‘the truth’, Solomon-style.
  • What they do with our data is important but they're unaccountable and secretive.
  • And they enable us to see what is happening around us, as new forms of unaccountable power take their place on the stage of politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • So the futures of over 3500 workers and their families are under threat from profiteers who are unaccountable to these workers or to anyone else - unaccountable to any franchise other than their major shareholders.
  • The first warning of hypo-glycaemia was an unaccountable anxiety and a feeling of impending trouble associated with restlessness. Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture
  • Charles too much of the little lady's society; but he was very fond of her, regarding her with an odd mixture of curiosity and amusement, much entertained with watching what he called her unaccountable manners, and greatly flattered when he could succeed in attracting her notice. The Heir of Redclyffe
  • According to Prophecy the Messiah which the Goyim worship will reveil himself as the Anti-Christ plunging the remanence of the free world into a Satanic totalitarian one world government headed by an unaccountable extension of the UN bringing depths of exploitation and inhumane barbarity upon mankind for a millennium. MetaFilter Projects
  • Yet once, by a strange and unaccountable impulse, he pressed it with his lips.
  • Outsourcing abuse to unaccountable Afghan militias is no different. Erica Gaston: Outsourcing the Dirty War in Afghanistan
  • I HAD never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre—and that was the unaccountable sport of nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. 37. The Dwarf. Paris
  • All these will be bitterly resisted by the unaccountable and unelected Brussels elite. The Sun
  • De Havilland made the point that bloggers are unaccountable, and suggested that the influence of blogging was being overplayed, mostly by bloggers themselves.
  • Many voters are suspicious of what they see as unaccountable elites. Times, Sunday Times
  • _nobody_ would believe him, and who _could believe_ that in _a day_, almost without struggle, _all would be over_, and the past, the present, the future carried away on an unaccountable storm! The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
  • One reason for this unaccountable failure for the participants to think things through may have been timing. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
  • For some unaccountable reason , he arrived a day early.
  • In the past, the Chinese have complained loudly that the miners behave like an unaccountable oligopoly.
  • She criticised the fact that both external and internal auditors, as well as senior management, had proved unaccountable.
  • All too often, business nowadays sees government as a sea of anti-progress ‘Sir Humphreys’ who generate red tape, obfuscate at every turn and aggrandise unaccountable power to themselves behind closed doors.
  • Note, When we are most in the dark concerning the meaning of God's dispensations we must still resolve to keep up right thoughts of God, and must be confident of this, that he never did, nor ever will do, the least wrong to any of his creatures; even when his judgments are unsearchable as a great deep, and altogether unaccountable, yet his righteousness is as conspicuous and immovable as the great mountains, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • The lack of transparency in the city budget has proved how the country has seriously deteriorated due to unaccountable leaders.
  • This move will give officials more power to exercise a high degree of discretion, allowing unelected and unaccountable individuals to push their own ideas with equanimity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Getting your period just seems like such a bizarre, unaccountable thing before you've gotten it - I just wanted to know what it was like.
  • Some might say you can't and shouldn't; yet when the market economy expresses wealth only through money, such intangibles which are unaccountable can easily not count and, unvalued, are quickly lost to society.
  • We already have in the him an unelected and virtually unaccountable individual who wields far too much power and influence.
  • Unaccountable to the public -- except those in agribusiness -- these agents employ a secret arsenal that would make any mercenary army proud: helicopters, airplanes, guns, poisons, traps, snares, and wildlife-chasing hounds. Wendy Keefover-Ring: Wildlife Services Dodges Disclosure on Animal Killing
  • These are the forces of Transnational Progressivism at work...and they in turn are the descendents of Communism who regrouped from that failure. and since the People rejected Communism..are trying to use mechanisms of Law and unaccountable NGOs staffed by Elites that bypass democratic institutions. "Koh's writings—especially when exaggerated—will add to charges from the right that Obama is a closet socialist."
  • The claimed input of non-elected people from outside of the Cabinet also undermines the democratic process as such people are unaccountable to the electorate.
  • Central banks in the industrial world conquered inflation and governments reined in the unaccountable power of trade unions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stern pronouncements are hurled down like thunderbolts from Zeus, and, like Zeus, their authors are totally unaccountable to mere human beings.
  • Many tasks have been farmed out to private, unaccountable contractors.
  • Today, as an unelected Brussels official, he is unaccountable and irremovable.
  • Frederick Crews [NYR, June 25] correctly states that whatever plausibility the alien-abduction hypothesis may have is due to the (allegedly) "otherwise unaccountable congruence of detail from one 'abductee' narrative to another," referring to this as "the classic sophistry of all ufologists. 'When Words Collide': An Exchange
  • Unfortunately, the qualities of this horse were so well concealed under his strange-colored hide and his unaccountable gait, that at a time when everybody was a connoisseur in horseflesh, the appearance of the aforesaid pony at Meung — which place he had entered about a quarter of an hour before, by the gate of Beaugency — produced an unfavorable feeling, which extended to his rider. Archive 2006-12-01
  • Doctors still remain largely unaccountable to the public.
  • There was an impromptu elevation of my personal dandriff, which was unaccountable. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5
  • But who wants a world order shaped by these unelected, unaccountable characters?
  • In England, the king is a perpetual magistrate; and it is a maxim which has obtained for the sake of the public peace, that he is unaccountable for his administration, and his person sacred.
  • These countries demonstrate that sanctions often mean little to unaccountable, despotic, governments.
  • They also point out that these drivers are unaccountable and untraceable promoting fears that it's only a matter of time before someone has a serious accident or another young person goes missing in Carlow with no recourse to the law.
  • It would render the rich and powerful unaccountable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another unelected, unaccountable foreign body. Times, Sunday Times
  • To reach the highest degree of amazing extravagance, the Epicureans have had the assurance to explain and account for what we call the soul of man and his free-will, by the clinamen, which is so unaccountable and inexplicable itself. The Existence of God
  • For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives. The Sun
  • Water supply, services and ancillary sectors are too important to be put into the hands of people whose main concern is the profit margin, and will leave us with a fragmented and unaccountable industry.
  • There are plenty of jokes in the show and there's plenty of McKenna's whit - but there's something else that's really unaccountable - magic.
  • That's because the no-account former Mayor Adrian Fenty, who Barry said was the 'most unaccountable mayor' he'd ever seen, is no longer in power. DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 21, 2011
  • Because of some unaccountable glitch, Paul is unable to get the following item posted this morning.
  • When Knight became leader, the council was run by a clique of officers largely unaccountable to the elected members.
  • I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, -- and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
  • Paul contends his case will expose "the institutional culture of corruption embraced by the Clinton leadership of the Democratic Party," which seeks to attain "unaccountable power for the Clintons at the expense of the rule of law and respect for the constitutional processes of government. Poll: 2 out of 3 Dems think long nomination battle hurting party
  • Furthermore, rods are machine-made and optically homogeneous, in contrast to the spheres, which are hand-made and may possess unaccountable individual differences.
  • This move will give officials more power to exercise a high degree of discretion, allowing unelected and unaccountable individuals to push their own ideas with equanimity. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the real blame lies with the arrogant, unaccountable and undemocratic European elite who rode roughshod over common sense and good economic advice. The Sun
  • His Honour Justice Lee, for reasons which with great respect are unaccountable, describes them as inevitable.
  • These mammoth investors remain for the most part opaque, gnome-like and unaccountable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The true scandal - is that ministers appoint these people [quangocrats], give them considerable powers, and yet it seems that ministers are completely unaccountable for what they do once they have been appointed.
  • In a word, they were doing what every elite in unaccountable institutions do, doing what suited themselves.
  • Let us judge whether people are fit to represent us, not these unelected, unaccountable standards quangos, committees and commissioners.
  • This tactic allows them to be on both sides of the issue and thus unaccountable to the People.
  • And as the Braidwood Inquiry chugs along, while incident after incident of Taser-happy, brutal, unaccountable RCMP officers hits the media, the notion of an RCMP union frankly makes my blood run cold. Archive 2009-04-01

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