Sentence examples for unaccountable influence from inspiring English sources

In Turkey it has long been assumed that Gülen's network exercised unaccountable influence inside the judicial and security apparatus.

Look no further than the Center for a New American Security, which advocated for the "surge" in Afghanistan back in 2009, to find an example of the extraordinary, and often unaccountable influence these organizations have.

He says they have "failed to conduct their relationship with sufficient transparency and accountability" and to put themselves in a position where they risked becoming vulnerable to unaccountable influences... which was, at least, partially in conflict with their responsibilities in relation to the conduct of public affairs".

Mexicans still dance to a tune played by a class of unaccountables, from influence-peddling union leaders to governors who rule their states as fiefs to TV networks that play favorites.

But contrary to what is routinely insisted, the monarchy retains significant unaccountable powers and influence.

(My new book Unaccountable investigates informal influence in finance and a wide range of other policy venues).

For one, society must prevent the circumstances that allow a future News Corp. to weld such power, unregulated and unaccountable, and unduly influence the affairs of government.

These unelected and (to turn the current mantra against them) unaccountable foundations "exercise vast influence over American education because of their strategic investments in school reform".

The problem identified in the parliamentary debates is that a bill designed to increase transparency in our democracy, and to curtail unaccountable and potentially corrupt influence, could have the unintended effect of burdening and weakening these civil society agencies in a way that is seriously bad news for democracy.

That includes the attempt to clean up the calamitous results of the run-away influence of unaccountable Wall Street on government influence Sarah Palin went after Saturday and rightly so.

This lighthearted look at the Clintons' charitable excursions exemplifies a much larger pattern: the unaccountability of today's influence elites (see my book Unaccountable).