词汇 | example_english_unaccountable |
释义 | Examples of unaccountableThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Regional variation was marked (5.3 to 8.9 per 1000 livebirths) and unaccountable in terms of potential morphogenetic mechanism, suggesting inconsistencies in referral of cases. Their anxieties focus on daily violations of the rule of law, corruption and unaccountable government. Grammatical forms found within the grammar of abnormality include adverbs and adverbials that denote the unexpected and unaccountable, as well as mental verbs and place adverbs. Although they possess the formal structures of democracy, they tend to delegate public policy formulation and decision-making to a largely unaccountable authority, usually the presidency, enjoying broad discretionary powers. At present societies like implicit, incoherent and unaccountable rationing. Dreaming presents a serious unaccountable anomaly for the sensorimotor research program and reveals that some of its fundamental assumptions about the nature of consciousness are questionable. Alongside errors or omissions, and some unaccountable changes or additions, there are questionable details that suggest a misunderstanding or misreading of some typical notational practices of the time. Middle-class benefits from economic liberalization had to be balanced against the excesses of unaccountable capitalism (whose symptoms included public disasters, corruption scandals and major financial crises). Moreover, oh-prefaces are specifically unaccountable. Prosperity is, of course, being promoted for big business, which is becoming more and more unaccountable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They will be able to run an unaccountable legislature in the full sense, with merely the theory of accountability. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The real problem, however, is the debasement of audit by the big firms, which are largely unaccountable and which dominate the regulation process. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To this day, for some unaccountable reason which to me has never been satisfactorily explained, the railways have not been given these powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The state dips its fingers into his pockets to shore up an inefficient and unaccountable utility. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They want to give unelected and unaccountable bodies responsibility for such important elements and services as education, housing and social services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were two or three almost unaccountable postponements last year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be disputes and an unaccountable body should not take the final decision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not in politics to give powers to unaccountable central bankers or to aim at zero inflation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All of our economic life is to be decided by an unelected, unaccountable single central bank. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People will say that monetary policy should not become unaccountable in the hands of bankers, but one does not need to go all that way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are, indeed, a number of worrying aspects to what can only be described as the cynical exercise of unaccountable power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall be voting against a system that is obnoxious, undemocratic and unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The police have not always been unaccountable to local pressures and local democracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not unaccountable, but should be regarded as a party with particular interests that do not necessarily amount to the public interest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are exceptions, but they are virtually unaccountable in any real sense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe this shows the wide support that exists for opening up this area of government hitherto perceived as undemocratic and unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many people have a fear of turning a public but accountable monopoly into a private but unaccountable one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have here a quite remarkable example of what appears to me to be unaccountable power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are unelected and unaccountable, a small group of people who organise themselves and have the opportunity to do good. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The trade unions wield great industrial power, but they remain unaccountable at law for any unlawful acts that they or their officials commit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By contrast, the off-course betting industry is totally unaccountable and can choose for itself the level of deductions for profit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I turn to the suggestion that somehow grant-maintained schools are unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The system must be locally accountable, rather than being run by unaccountable civil servants and bureaucracies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The truth is that it is becoming unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The new intolerance of the uncontrolled, unaccountable and unregulated market is in full flow across the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have an existing system that is unfair, unaccountable, capricious and arbitrary in its application. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such people are completely unaccountable to the local people whom they are supposed to serve. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been an unaccountable and undemocratic police force since 1829, and it is time for that to stop. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that one can have an unelected, unaccountable central bank. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There remains a very important role for government—both central and local—but it need not be one which requires large, remote and unaccountable bureaucracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The teacher training agency is a new body to administer central funds, and will be another unaccountable and undemocratic quango. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of them do not appear to be subject to planning control and, apparently, are often unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Centralised power is itself a danger to liberty, as is unaccountable power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time, "unco-ordinated", "unaccountable" and just about every other adjective expressing derision were heaped on the running of the system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since they came to power, they have created 300 unelected, unaccountable taskforces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have already said that these fields are, for some unaccountable reason, found to be unacceptable by the medical establishment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are unaccountable, in the view of many people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The police seem to be an unaccountable law unto themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Previously, the service consisted of 77 separate and largely unaccountable rent registration areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They appear to be unanswerable and unaccountable to anyone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is fast becoming an enthusiast for an overweening, centralised and unaccountable exercise of state power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Accountability is what this place should be all about and no force in a democracy should be unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is concern that the community trust will be unelected and unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are more expensive and far worse than they were before the war; there are unaccountable delays and an increased proportion of damage to goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without any serious debate, the regulation of the privatised utilities has been hived off to autocratic unaccountable directors general. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our system of selecting, training and promoting magistrates and judges remains mysterious, secretive and unaccountable and reeks of patronage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, it is increasingly important that we examine accountability throughout the region and understand that there is regional tier that is currently unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has changed his mind about quangos—did he find that they were not so unaccountable after all? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suspect that this new institution will be equally secretive and unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only an industry that is completely unaccountable and had no shareholders could behave in that way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have in the neglected grassland of this country a reserve of fertility which is almost of unaccountable dimensions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We read in the newspapers about motor cars unaccountably going off the road, and unaccountable head-on collisions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Currently, much of the world's economic activity is unaccountable and much of the world's pollution is created without regard for anyone else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Increasingly, powers are being put into the hands of quangos, and of people who are unelected and unaccountable to the local population. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unelected peers reflect an elitist state, which is one of the most unaccountable and secretive in the democratic world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The proposed funding council will be non-elected and unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Tanks appeared on the street and soldiers were placed on the roofs of buildings for some reason which was unaccountable to us at the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the event of a compulsory sell-off, they would be replaced by an unaccountable—in any public sense—private body. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are establishing a remote, unaccountable funding agency which will have little to do with the local area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are undemocratic and unaccountable, and they lead to too many little private, cosy arrangements being made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here you have a man who for some unaccountable reason becomes wealthy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The objective is to squeeze all of us into a single currency run by an unelected, unaccountable central bank. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He replied to my letter, but for some unaccountable reason omitted to give me the figure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The argument that unelected and unaccountable judges can make this kind of decision seems absurd. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In particular, the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty must not be qualified or reversed by unclear or unaccountable criminal procedures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Decisions were taken behind closed doors by a hotchpotch of unaccountable committees and obscure quangos. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The clause wants directly elected local authorities to provide information to unelected and unaccountable quangos. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether by design or otherwise, much of its activity has become inaccessible, non-transparent and unaccountable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Too many local decisions are being made by unaccountable, faceless bureaucrats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He seems also to accept my point about the transfer of economic power from elected politicians to appointed and unaccountable bankers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We saw an example of the transfer of powers from democratically elected politicians to unelected and unaccountable bankers some months ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, there is an undemocratic and unaccountable health service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No change should be brought about by dogmatic beliefs or zealous pursuit of some remote, unjustified or unaccountable centralism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would not waste investment on yet another unaccountable quango and yet more pieces of paper and bureaucracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not the real problem about quangos the fact that they have become the unelected, unaccountable and secretive state? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The book is published without love: it has narrow margins, variable print size and unaccountable changes in font style. Do they do so primarily because they believe their democratically elected government is corrupt and unaccountable? Interestingly, three subjects in this study reported sudden unaccountable anxiety with one becoming tearful during stimulation. Furthermore, many unaccountable officials hold their meetings in committees that lack transparency and openness. Liberals viewed the bureaucracy as a reactionary tool used by governments that were unaccountable to constitutions or the popular will. Unaccountable as it may be, the effect of authoritative, regulatory criticism on literary productivity has been damaging. On the one hand incompetent, unaccountable and increasingly repressive governments were bringing their societies close to collapse. Popularly elected officials played as significant a role in establishing that practice as supposedly unaccountable federal justices. Given these circumstances, the tenor of the critical attack seems less shrill and unaccountable than many literary historians admit. The mobilisation against unaccountable rule and social exclusion throve on a discourse appropriate to gerontocratic power structures - that of youth empowerment. The bibliography, however, suffers from an unaccountable failure to reproduce many of the sub-titles of the books mentioned. Rather, their appeal must rest on their ability to illuminate, to explain matters that otherwise seem confusing or unaccountable. Confronted with a world where kinspeople seemed dangerously unaccountable, detainees managed their homes through the postal system. A description of the animal as 'pouch-like' would be both unaccountable and unprecedented. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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