In Roman law the unassailability of ambassadors was guaranteed even after the outbreak of war.
Edie Windsor is not religious, but she had an equivalent quality of unassailability in the longevity of her relationship with Spyer.
Life inside it had many charms, one of which was the unassailability of the conservatives' ideas (since, until Iraq, their side had never won the policy debate, these ideas were untested).
At bottom, he observes, "they have nothing in common but the almost shattering unassailability, the life-stricken I, in each.
And do you know them, and do they want to do what you want to do?" Working with Mr. Horowitz, a producer she trusts, has been assuring as she heads into previews; even more than that, she takes comfort in the unassailability of the play itself.
Behind all of it is Mr. Stewart, an impassioned, engagingly bombastic and occasionally loose-tongued leader who is one of the city's longest-tenured headmasters, a testament not only to his success but also to his unassailability, as he and his wife, Jayme, own the school.
While she defended many causes — justice, loyalty, American civil liberties, anti-fascism and Soviet-style Communism among them — what she represented most staunchly was herself, and what she believed in most fiercely was her own unassailability.
Its release amounts to the outing of a group of men so confident in the unassailability of their privilege as to revel in it, record it and build a team culture around it.
In a scathing attack on political correctness in its legalistic American version as sexual harassment, Steiner warns, from the unassailability of his Norton pulpit, that "no less than the act of teaching itself, the arc of sex must cross the age gap".
I can hear in his voice his wish to believe in the unassailability of their love, yet he is swift to acknowledge how hard Nelly's lot became: "Here was a woman harbouring the secret of a past life.
Many of the assumptions made about the book rest on the work of Wheeler's assistant, John Bell, a learned and imaginative young researcher who is equally drawn by Wheeler's devilishness and by the presumed unassailability of academe.
