| We all know that youths are untouchable, that we're not allowed to defend ourselves and that authority is ridiculed. |
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| It was the equivalent of a mere flesh wound, but nonetheless, he had damaged the seemingly untouchable beast. |
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| There are enough old hands at a news desk at any given time to know what the untouchable subjects are. |
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| He became so reckless in his deceptions and crookedness precisely because he believed himself to be untouchable. |
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| The individual lawmakers are untouchable for anything they do as legislators. |
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| Some are corrupt and powerfully untouchable from the start, others are mad and witchlike. |
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| He is one of Cincinnati's top prospects, and was deemed untouchable when the team was negotiating the trade. |
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| He's ranked 13, but for six consecutive years he was untouchable at the top of the rankings. |
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| The 25-year-old was untouchable as she soared to her winning height of 2.06m at the first attempt. |
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| The problem is that United's players, fans and staff like to think of themselves as being unreachable, if not untouchable. |
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| They think they are untouchable because excuses are made for their appalling behaviour. |
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| In the 400, Klochkova appears untouchable, but Hungary's Risztov may be ready to take her on. |
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| The health service is very politicised in this country which makes it almost untouchable. |
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| They were arrogant enough to think they were untouchable, but they have been arrested. |
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| These three Lebanese designers have not attempted to become the disembodied and untouchable master architect. |
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| It was like reaching back in time and touching the untouchable, the unknowable. |
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| Money brings status and we want to take away the flash car a drug dealer is driving and show them they are not untouchable. |
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| I may begin to humanize them and think of them as persons instead of as animals or some untouchable class. |
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| Police were today still hunting the weapon used to kill the 6ft, 20-stone criminal, who boasted in a TV documentary that he was untouchable. |
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| From an early age I had this very strong identity as a rebel, a real untouchable. |
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| He was the man of steel, Teflon man, untouchable and unbeatable. |
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| Indeed, the citizenry's incentive to finger such bad guys isn't particularly strong when the word on the street is that the these people are untouchable. |
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| If marriage is invincible, indelibly written on the human heart, untouchable or only slightly touched by culture, where do all these fatherless families come from? |
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| Protected by his alleged status as a police informer, and until recently by two bodyguards, he has become a Scottish Don Corleone, the feared head of an untouchable empire. |
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| In the streets, they are almost untouchable, but their property is not. |
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| The trio was under the impression that they were untouchable and would beat the rap and began to transfer their assets to relatives' modern-day off-shore accounts. |
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| It is mainly a force that makes us suspect there are new aspects to the invisible, the untouchable. |
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| The System Security Force is there to keep order, feared and untouchable because of the violence they mete out to anyone who crosses them. |
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| He is surrounded by invisible and untouchable beings that should already be visible and touchable. |
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| These men apparently were responsible for disemboweling bodies during the mummification process and were considered an untouchable caste. |
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| Yet he is drawn to probe boundaries, and the square's apparent untouchability, he said, symbolizes the state's desire for untouchable power. |
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| A street-side news vender, with an apparent nonchalance belying the untouchable lowness of his trade, approached my partly open window. |
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| Outraged, Mr Narayanan sought an audience with the local maharajah, who refused to see the untouchable upstart. |
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| In the rural areas, if even the shadow of an untouchable goes on a pandit, that man can be killed. |
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| Grudgingly it seems the Sun has been dragged into the 21st century and dropped this supposedly untouchable national institution. |
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| The identity of a child that has not been sold, kidnapped or adopted is untouchable. |
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| Professional secrecy is untouchable, not just in the context of trials in process but also in the context of legal consultation. |
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| Our commitment to reflection and action obliges us to disassemble indeterminacy, which is not touched yet or remains untouchable. |
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| They want to turn him into an untouchable, protected from any criticism or questioning. |
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| Carbon is an untouchable commodity which market is growing faster than gold. |
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| The operation was so gross that only those few who had absolute authority thought they were untouchable. |
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| A terrible but daring crime had been committed in the early hours of that summer morning by an elderly untouchable dalit woman. |
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| The issue thus remains untouchable, even if the above-mentioned demographic changes could hasten the needed transformations. |
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| Diseases which were untouchable ten or twenty years ago yield to enlightened chemical or surgical or other treatment. |
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| In addition to this general impunity, some elements of the armed forces enjoy a de facto special status and are essentially untouchable. |
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| The sports players become the heroes and the country creates a pedestal where the athlete is beyond reproach and untouchable and this leads to all matter of problems. |
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| We want to relate to their humanity rather than gape at their untouchable infallibility. |
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| He is untouchable, Scotland's supreme champion, best of breed. |
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| The life that can never be recreated is the invisible, untouchable inner one, which cannot be reproduced even by the most psychoanalytical detective. |
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| It looked ethereal, almost untouchable, and I fingered the silk, let it run between my fingers like water, then folded it up with the rest of my stuff that I would need. |
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| A month or so ago, Arsenal, 49 matches without defeat, looked untouchable. |
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| While they were untouchable last year, there may be four or five teams chasing Kilkenny's tail this year, each giving their fans a reason to feel optimistic about the summer. |
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| Agreed, Danny was untouchable last year with his Yakumbuyo album to the extent that fans still talk about the title-track at his shows the moment he finishes performing Kaya. |
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| A sacred place, the little dome has since become untouchable. |
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| The ones who are truly responsible for corruption remain untouchable. |
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| At the same time, the arms race continues unchecked and the pace of development of conventional weapons is accelerating while vast arsenals of nuclear weapons remain untouchable. |
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| Last week, the army bombarded rebel strongholds there to flush them out of the capital, once seen as Assad's untouchable seat of power but now host to daily fighting. |
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| With between three and six times the kinematic performance of any current missile of its type, Meteor will provide the air forces of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK with untouchable air dominance. |
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| He'd been untouchable for the past decade, but now Roy Grace had finally banged him to rights. |
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| With her election virtually assured at a party congress in December, she will take a seat on Zanu-PF's politburo and, as Mugabe's wife, be untouchable. |
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| This shows that the law on inheritance is not untouchable. |
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| This was the precisely the megalomaniac, untouchable ethos that appeared to contribute to Clarkson feeling that it was perfectly reasonable to harangue and attack that BBC employee the way he did. |
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| The classic mid-position floorboards and sit-up stance define Touring in the Harley-Davidson sense, and remain an untouchable concept for the hard-bitten clientele. |
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