Sentence examples for untouchable positions from inspiring English sources

That police command structure allows for power-seekers and predator-types to work their way up to seemingly untouchable positions only makes it worse: "The opportunity for corruption when subordinates are the only ones who are going to be checking in on you is so obvious," she told VICE.

With the rise of Fascism in Italy his untouchable position declined.

Illustrating the increasing CGI-fication of warfare, Good Kill uses its deliberately restricted chamber-drama parameters to question the ethics of a war that places its executioners in a detached, untouchable godlike position.

Historically, Dalits (e.g., Kami, Sunar, Damai, Sarki) are untouchables and positioned at the bottom of the social hierarchy.

Those who want to get close to baseball's most untouchable player generally position themselves more than 400 feet away from him.

"My conscience is clear," said Mr. Laxman, who was Mr. Vajpayee's choice for president of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the first person from one of the formerly untouchable castes to hold the position.

Cook's position may not quite be untouchable but no one is suggesting he should depart anytime soon.

And ARCO's position as general partner is untouchable so long as the Lagardère family controls it.Doing lip service to the demands of corporate governance, the company's articles provide that shareholders approve the appointment (or reappointment) of a gérant.

But with 2013 global revenues ($99.7 billion) almost close to what it reported in 2008 ($103.6 billion), IBM Rometty is cracking down on units and executive positions that were once considered untouchables a few years ago.

Churchill's position in the public mind was untouchable then, and remains almost as untouchable now.

"I find myself in the position of a literary Sacred Cow or an Untouchable," an incipiently insufferable Burns told Little Brown & Company.