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103 examples of Unaccountable in a sentence

It demanded an extraordinarily independent and unaccountable central bank that is now running an excessively tight monetary policy, aggravating the plight of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain).
Critical thought is increasingly dismissed as an elitist endeavor, while unaccountable social media, “fake news,” and “alternative facts” dominate public discussion.
The constitution must be reformed, but not to shift power from one unaccountable leader to another.
Members of the middle class resented their loss of dignity at the hands of an unaccountable elite.
There are unquestionably big advantages to having an automatic procedure that is simple and transparent, especially if the alternative is delegating the job to a committee of unelected, unaccountable ivory-tower economists.
This dynamic is particularly apparent in the EU, where many decisions are in the hands of a distant and unaccountable bureaucracy lacking in sufficient democratic legitimacy.
In too many countries, they found women were marginalized (though, to be fair, not in Tunisia), education was dominated by religion, and government was autocratic, unaccountable, and corrupt.
For example, Tea Party activists, using a group called End the Fed, were among the first to focus critical attention on the unelected and unaccountable US Federal Reserve Board.
Concerns that some of Hazare’s proposals risked creating a large, omnipotent, and unaccountable supra-institution that could not be challenged, reformed, or abolished were overlooked in the desire to appease him.
The question is how to keep surveillance off the slippery slope to unaccountable snooping.
Attachment to national feeling was further undermined by governments’ habit of blaming unpopular policies on European Union bureaucrats, who are increasingly seen as yet another bunch of self-satisfied, privileged, and unaccountable elitists.
We can see signs of this in Germany, where many now question whether the ECB is too powerful, independent, and unaccountable.
Can anyone really picture Trump submitting to the judgment of a bunch of unaccountable international civil servants?
Arab dictatorships, beholden to obscure economic interests and shielded by corrupt and unaccountable security apparatuses, have consistently violated this contract.
One advantage is that a simple, transparent, and automatic procedure appears more objective than the rulings of a committee of unelected, unaccountable academic economists.
The 2015 Eurogroup meetings offer listeners a front-row seat on the blood sport that is unaccountable power.
Whether or not Putin directly ordered each hit, he created the system that allowed them to happen – one that is ineffective, unaccountable, and prone to destabilization by rogue actors.
Trumpism is just the latest in a series of populist waves born of anger toward what people see as unaccountable, self-interested political elites in Washington, DC.
It would have been easy to make my death unaccountable.
If I live apart from my father, at his age, he may forget me ...Norbert will marry some attractive, clever woman: the old Louis XIV was beguiled by the Duchesse de Bourgogne ...'She decided to obey, but refrained from communicating her father's letter to Julien; his unaccountable nature might lead him to commit some act of folly.
There was, from that moment, in her feeling for Julien, something vague, unaccountable, almost akin to terror.
There is something very strange and unaccountable about a tow-line.
There was an unaccountable strangeness about Harris.
It seemed that he had caught it himself, years ago, when he was quite a lad; not by any art or skill, but by that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bit of string tied on to the end of a tree.
We thought it strange and unaccountable that a stuffed trout should break up into little pieces like that.
And so it would have been strange and unaccountable, if it had been a stuffed trout, but it was not.
In fact, no small part of the bitterness expressed by Captain Lawton against the peddler, arose from the unaccountable disappearance of the latter, when intrusted to the custody of two of his most faithful dragoons.
Some half hour before the culinary array just recorded took place, all the ladies disappeared, much in the same unaccountable manner that swallows flee the approach of winter.
Most of the guests had been fasting too long to be in any degree fastidious in their appetites; but the case was different with Captain Lawton; he felt an unaccountable loathing at the exhibition of Betty's food, and could not refrain from making a few passing comments on the condition of the knives, and the clouded aspect of the plates.
The unaccountable absence of Dunwoodie, with the shock of parting from Henry under such circumstances, had entirely subdued her fortitude, and she had sunk on a stone by the roadside, sobbing as if her heart would break.
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