Instead, the harsh criticism from unelected talkers and writers on the right makes them look small.
Their fate is being decided elsewhere, by unelected officials from the EU or the IMF.
The European Commission, which is unelected, unabashedly sees itself as the keeper of the European flame.
Both are unelected and both are about to become better acquainted with Martin McGuinness.
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They objected that Sark's hereditary seigneur and seneschal will still have an unelected role in government.
Today appointments for both positions are vetted by a committee comprised of unelected lawyers.
Considerable lawmaking power is delegated to unelected bureaucrats at agencies, something that must be addressed by Congress.
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The brothers have objected to powers granted by Sark's constitution, specifically those given to the unelected Seigneur.
In the past, you have criticised unelected judges for substituting their judgment for that of elected legislatures.
People in Selma had been cool at first to the unelected sheriff, but his force was useful.
Under the proposed law, the unelected Judicial Appointments Committee would remain responsible for nominating and approving justices.
Essentially, IPAB would substitute an unelected body for government, enabling it to make binding recommendations to reduce Medicare spending.
"He just praised Saudi Arabia for appointing 30 women to the unelected Shura council, " she says of Mr. Kerry.
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The opposition Socialists, wrongfooted again by Mr Sarkozy, complain that members of his unelected entourage are bypassing official channels.
This 15-member, unelected Board will be charged with making recommendations for reducing Medicare spending if costs exceed a specified cap.
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It was also a rejection of the policies championed by Mario Monti, the unelected prime minister who replaced Silvio Berlusconi.
She is from outside any party structure, having been given the top job by Italy's current, unelected government of technocrats.
Governments are used to insisting that in any confrontation, the unelected house must bend to the will of the elected one.
Mr Salmond hit back at the peer, saying "we don't need lessons from Lord Forsyth and the unelected House of Lords".
It is hard to see how an unelected prime minister, at the head of a patchwork coalition, could accomplish such things.
Mr Monti, an unelected technocrat and former EU commissioner, has said he will "act with urgency" to address Italy's deep-rooted economic problems.
Too many reckless bankers and too many unpaid debts have dragged the European Union into the mire, not too many unelected bodies.
When the new charter was drafted, it was thought that none of these responsibilities could be entrusted to an unelected upper chamber.
In countries like France, placing economic decision-making in the hands of politicians, rather than unelected bureaucrats, sounds like a defence of democracy.
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The EU is a club of democracies, albeit one with unelected referees.
George Wallace argued that an unelected official was acting like a governor.
For an unelected prime minister, Mr Monti was skating on thin ice.
An arbitrary system like IPAB lacks transparency and oversight, substituting an unelected board for government, without any true checks and balances by Congress.
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The most responsive actor across the euro zone in the crisis has been the European Central Bank, unelected and independent of any government.
The International Roma Union tries to redress that problem by speaking on the gypsies' behalf, but many of the delegates themselves are unelected.
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