Sentence examples for apolitical role from inspiring English sources

"The apolitical role of the security forces must be respected by all parties.

At least one assigns only a narrow, apolitical role to the military as guardian of national sovereignty.

In fact, Lord Adonis is to hang on to his Labour membership card, ceasing only to take the Lords party whip, the apparent price of taking up this apolitical role – so hardly a real desertion, still less a defection.

Despite that military's supposedly apolitical role in this country's affairs, its leaders are uniquely capable of blocking any attempt to end the Afghan War.

He mistrusted officials who had worked too closely with Labour, and moved rapidly moved partisans into notionally apolitical roles.

And I'm willing to bet that's because she was famously apolitical in her role, calculatedly involved in pretty cultural projects and raising her photogenic family.

All this is dragging central banks back towards political turf from which they had been distancing themselves for years.Central bankers still believe that once the crisis has passed they will return to their pre-2007 roles as apolitical technocrats pulling a single lever and eyeing a single variable.

His nuanced take on Mapplethorpe, an apolitical artist cast in the role of martyr, is astute.

But it also increased the possibility that Mr. Monti might run as a candidate — a shift from the role of an apolitical leader — who is open to governing if no clear winner emerges from elections expected as soon as February.

In Beijing for the opening ceremony, Mr. Bush seemed eager to play the role of the apolitical sports fan, instead of publicly pressing China's leaders on the ongoing Olympics crackdown.

Purists could argue that Goolsbee's frequent forays into the realm of P.R. diminish the C.E.A.'s traditional role as a relatively apolitical post providing unbiased economic analysis, but at least the White House finally has someone who can coherently explain its economic agenda.