Unaccountable Sentence Examples

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  • By some unaccountable accident, the date of the original communication to the Academy of Berlin is wrongly printed.

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  • Fortunately the birds soon become tame in confinement, and a little patience will enable an attentive observer to satisfy himself as to the process, the result of which at first seems almost as unaccountable as that of a clever conjuring trick.

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  • At the time these unaccountable deaths were considered an omen of war.

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  • For some unaccountable reason they had suddenly decided to become fractious.

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  • The party constitution is rewritten to make the leadership more thoroughly unaccountable to party members.

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  • At law, they remain substantially unaccountable to any other creditor for the way in which a company's assets are dealt with.

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  • The media, they think, have become unaccountable, over powerful and careless about accuracy.

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  • Freedom in the sense of complete liberty of choice would seem to lead to the conclusion that free agents are irresponsible, unaccountable.

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  • Surrendering such sovereignty to un-elected and unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels is not an option I could ever support.

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  • The European Union is run by an unaccountable coterie of corrupt bureaucrats.

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  • The Forestry Commission controls vast tracts of hill land yet there is concern that it is an unaccountable quango.

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  • Both the parliament and executive contain Scots who are absolutely and totally democratically unaccountable to the people whose lives they blight.

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  • However these men remained invisible and largely unaccountable for their behavior.

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  • My intervention is totally unaccountable in the world of beetles.

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  • Such people are completely unaccountable to the local people whom they are supposed to serve.

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  • We have a State that does too much, that interferes too much, that is too unaccountable.

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  • To one unacquainted with the character of the schooner, the proceedings of her crew must have seemed unaccountable as well as surprising.

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  • Not only are unaccountable decisions taken, but even discussion of these decisions is apparently rendered unnecessary.

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  • He had offered no obstacle in 1704 to a match proposed for Stella to Dr William Tisdall of Dublin, and, with his evident delight in the society of the dark-haired, brighteyed, witty beauty - a model, if we may take his word, of all that woman should be - it seemed unaccountable that he did not secure it to himself by the expedient of matrimony.

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  • Not so, for some unaccountable reason Bloggy decides to room with Kevin who then proceeds to snore all night like an asthmatic camel.

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  • It has highlighted the concern that many in EU countries feel about an unaccountable bureaucracy.

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  • Hard to see or not, the fact of the matter is that an unaccountable financial elite has quietly seized power.

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  • Thus what remains to be seen is whether agility can out-do the brute force of powerful unaccountable institutions.

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  • At law, they remain substantially unaccountable to any other creditor for the way in which a company 's assets are dealt with.

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  • Moreover, among the Jewish families settled in the 5th century B.C. in Egypt (Elephantine) and Babylonia (Nippur), the Babylonian-Assyrian principles are in vogue, and the presumption that they were not unfamiliar in Palestine is strengthened further by the otherwise unaccountable appearance of Babylonian-Assyrian elements later in the Talmudic law.

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  • A quite unaccountable tragedy left this fine gentleman bereft of his good humor.

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  • As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up his mind that they would be friends.

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  • For some unaccountable reason we all started to recite a few lines of poetry.

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  • But besides all this, there is an unaccountable sympathetic something about the man with good hands that cannot be described.

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  • On the latter occasion he would have won a signal victory but for the unaccountable remissness of his second-in-command, Admiral Liljehorn.

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  • Moreover, even in the passages where the agreement with Polybius is most apparent, there are so many discrepancies and divergencies in detail, and so many unaccountable omissions and additions, as to render it inconceivable that he had the text of Polybius before him.

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  • For if consciousness be looked upon as simply an epiphenomenon, an unaccountable appearance accompanying the succession of material changes, the possibility either of active interference by human volition at any point within the physical series or of any controlling or directing efficacy of consciousness over the whole set of material changes which accompany its activity becomes unthinkable.

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