Sentences with phrase «as untouchable»

Long seen as an untouchable «third - rail» in Washington, D.C., the break is now on the table as the Obama administration and Republicans look for more tax revenue.

I'm not too sure I like the fiction of accepting long standing precedents as untouchable without getting some sense from Judge Roberts as to when a precedent might be reversed.

Gang members apparently regarded themselves as untouchable.

From the vantage point of a videogame player, it's natural to see the ancient abstracts as these untouchable titans of history.

If you treat the TFSP as an untouchable investment vehicle, then this assumption holds true.

With heart - breaking back story on many of the key players, such as lead thief Balthazar's downfall at the age of twelve after watching a Roman centurion skewer his baby brother in the market, Graham - Smith is able to humanize so many of the characters that have until now only been known as untouchable and godly.

I don't hold Ricardo Montalban's Khan as an untouchable evil icon, but it seems excessive for this universe to duplicate it.

The character comes across as an untouchable, unrealistic superhero rather than a person, and all the other people in his life appear as ciphers.

Richard Roundtree fills the central role nicely, making it completely his own as the untouchable but charismatic private detective from Harlem.

After so many years of ever tightening welfare entitlements, and with the City elite seemingly as untouchable as ever, to focus any argument about distributional justice on welfare claimants is borderline obscene.

In a way I think riley and co view themselves as untouchable.

but also horrifying to think of yourself as untouchable, des - picable to the human race.»

Fans tend to view celebrities as untouchable icons.

Although AIDS can not be spread through casual contact, people with AIDS tend to be treated as untouchables, which adds to their pain.

«We're a hitting team,» Shero concluded, «but we've always made the mistake of treating Orr and Esposito as untouchables.

For the first time since the Sex Offender Registry Act took effect in January 1996, some individuals often viewed as untouchables are getting back some of their privacy because they're aging off the list.

Of 300 contributors to online surveys and focus groups, 71 % identified themselves as Dalit (formerly known as Untouchables — the lowest castes, located outside and below the Hindu varna system), 58 % claimed to have suffered discrimination on grounds of caste, 79 % believed they would not be understood by the police if they reported a caste - related «hate crime» and 85 % believed there was no legislation available to protect victims of caste discrimination.

Not exact matches

Instead of viewing money as a scary untouchable, I see it as a way for companies to value my hard work and for employees to understand the value of their work.

But while the announcement is no - doubt shocking (as Police Chief Bill Blair remarked, «We have no historical precedent for doing that in Ontario), it comes on the heels of a similar move in numerous U.S. cities, where the axe has already fallen on those previously considered to be untouchable.

The belief that Weinstein was so feared as to be essentially untouchable may be behind the rumors that Bob Weinstein was behind Harvey's ouster, with Page Six reporting that he may have fed sources to the New York Times: If no one could make the story stick before, the thinking goes, someone extremely powerful must have really wanted it to stick this time.

With one week left in April I decided to deploy some fresh capital into a market that has been very, very generous as of late in terms of giving us much better buying opportunities in many «name brand» stocks that have been previously deemed untouchable because of low yields, high valuations and relatively speaking, high prices.

When asked where they believe the biggest risks for insider trading lie, 44 % of respondents said that they believe it is firms with an attitude of being untouchable among the top level of management, compared to 24 % of people who felt this way in January 2016; 35 % think the biggest risk is rogue employees, down from 59 % of respondents; and 21 % think it is the ease of circumventing company monitoring through work around technologies, such as gaming stations and disposable mobile phones, up from 17 % in 2016.

Other provisions, known as «reservations,» ensure places for Dalits («untouchables») and Adivasi («tribal peoples») in universities and government bureaucracies.

Dalits who constitute almost 20 % of the Indian population (200 million), were considered untouchables as a result of the Hindu understanding of «ritual pollution and purity.»

The etymology of the term «Dalit» goes back to the 19th century when a Marathi social reformer and revolutionary Mahatma Jyotirao Phule used it to describe the «outcastes» and «untouchables» as the «oppressed and crushed victims of the Indian caste system.»

e. Poor women, children, untouchables and other marginalized are socially and economically excluded and their nothingness is translated as an ontological expression of their being.

His main argument is as follows: «The word Hindu which had essentially geographic and cultural meaning began to acquire religious connotations» and communal overtones when missionary religious began converting the untouchables and lower castes of Hindu society with promise of their liberation from caste indignities.

The holy Koran is untouchable and try as you may you can not change it's words.

It is «tabu», untouchable, not subject to being questioned in the same way as other things.

These «untouchables» took jobs regarded as «impure,» such as scavenging and sweeping and were segregated from the rest of society.

You hold fast to an idea of an improbable, incomprehensible, untouchable nature as if its fact!

most Christian Dalits were deeply aware that much of their plight as people of «untouchable» origin has continued inspite of accepting the Christian faith and much of their expectations in new community (church) have remained unfulfilled.

you hold fast to an idea of an improbable, incomprehensible, untouchable nature as if its fact!

He broke down social barriers, touching those who had been declared «untouchable,» teaching women as their rabbi, and eating and drinking with «sinners.»

All the managers work hard to make things happen (Transfer and tactics as well as men management) as Wenger as a «Laissez faire» attitude and untouchable arrogance.

No reason to panic as they've been virtually untouchable until this point.

The car was dominant in the early part of the season as Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard looked untouchable.

No player should be untouchable as far as team selection goes and if they are not playing well then they should be left out, simples.

Mediocrity has always been the thing since wenger began to feel he was untouchable at the club... Sam Allardyce might not have been the best coach in the EPL but for he did something remarkable and honorable when he stepped down after rescuing the Eagles from relegation and that's what the potato head should have done when he found out that the fans were not united because of him... changing tactics after the deed has been done won't prove anything right but putting his arrogance and ego aside and stepping down as manager for someone who is hungry and ambitious for silverware will be the best... change must a; ways happen cos it's inevitable.

Wenger has been untouchable but this season, as he's confirmed, will be key for his future.

He, along with Ander Herrera, are emerging as the true untouchables of Jose's new look Manchester United team.

With Lewandowski — the Bundesliga's leading scorer — surely untouchable as Bayern's centre - forward, it becomes hard to see how Robben could immediately return to the Bavarians» starting lineup, and the Independent report that the Dutch veteran has «not reacted well».

It seems you have replied to the wrong article here as many of your comments do not apply, I said nothing of artetas ability, I said coquelin is untouchable in dm, which he is.

So it goes for Jake Arrieta, just as it went for Verlander and Lee in the past, and just as it will go for the next seemingly untouchable ace in the future.

so all they need to do is show up, PLEASE the manager and they are safe too, no matter how bad results are, the one thing that matters to them is PLEASING the untouchable man and they can keep getting their fat weekly cheques whilst flopping on the field... a new manager will gut half of this squad because frankly they are not fit foe purpose... its even more annoying when you see how open this year's league is and how ita possible foe them to win it even as useless and spineless as they are, but we really underestimate just how gutless and totally useless and spineless these eternal losers are....

Wenger manage to please them by spending few money and still making the club have profit.Imagine all those clubs outside the top 4 crying for the CL place as there is so much money involved, that why Wenger is untouchable by the board.He is over achieving compare to what he spend and he does not spend in order to win but to compete.Don t come with your crap talk about Ozil and Sanchez, their buy did not solve nothing of the serious needs of the team, it was Hollywood signing just to woaw around people and supporters.

The team that I see as our only big rivals for the Title, they sit 2 points clear of us right now, they just tore Newcastle a new one, and are just about everybodys pick for the league, and the only real test in the league coming soon is at home to Man United (Pray for a draw), but whilst they are everybodys pick, they are favourites, they are still not untouchable.

Also as Wenger said english referees are untouchable but they are not invited to theWorld Cup.

Wenger knows he is untouchable, so he will do what he wants... The fans can not touch him (but only abuse him) and all is good as long as we get a top four finish.

The man has changed out of recognition from his early years et the club.It is my opinion he has allowed himself to feel as though he is BIGGER than the Club.This especially so since that dark day of David Deins departure.He seems to believe he is untouchable and answerable to nobody.The Board were s *** ing bricks he would walk away and to my mind he used this to get his own way with everything.I have met this man on numerous occasions down the years of his time at the club and honestly he is the most polite and well versed Manager in Football.That is why I despise him more.He KNOWS he has failed this last decade.He knows he has made far too many wrong decisions with transfers and tactics and formations etc.But he NEVER accepts he is wrong.