Sentence examples for be unaccountable from inspiring English sources

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be unaccountable

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Inexplicable; unable to account for, or explain

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Government, he said, allows too many people to be unaccountable, while individuals can achieve great things.

The prime minister, David Cameron, Speaker of the House John Bercow and glamorous Kazakh oil tycoon Goga Ashkenazi allowed him to be unaccountable.

Their behavior supports Glaucon's sour assessment of our longing to turn invisible: that it is really a longing to be unaccountable — to be, like gods and despots, beyond the reach of custom, obligation, and law.

"It's so arrogant to think that I should be unaccountable, and every six months I'll just give people a peek," said Donald L. Luskin, chief executive of MetaMarkets and manager of OpenFund.

"The American people respect and support our military, but they do not believe, nor do I, that the Pentagon should be unaccountable or exempt from the laws which apply to us all," said Representative Nick J. Rahall II of West Virginia, senior Democrat on the House Resources Committee.

He added that "private companies will not be transparent and will be unaccountable to us, as deaths in custody involving private companies have shown".

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Yet this would not be a reason for thinking that memory is "unaccountable," but only "presently unaccounted for".

Indeed, the Mongols were unaccountable.

Worse, it's unaccountable.

And these groups are unaccountable.

But to say it is unaccountable is nonsense.

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