adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the British Parliament's unelected House of Lords
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A randomly selected redistricting committee would leave the real power, again, with unelected staff.
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A small point in a big-city operation, but one more shift of responsibility from elected officials to the unelected bureaucracy.
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All the added power to be granted county government by this charter proposal will accrue to an unelected staff.
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Elected Governments find that they have to share their power with unelected bodies ... Events are seemingly beyond their control.
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However, unelected , time limited, hierarchical agencies have played an important role in central government initiatives to solve social problems.
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In effect, Congress repeatedly gave away a sizable chunk of power to the unelected civil servants who staff federal agencies.
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In other words, an unelected body decides what it will consider.
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We break that trust by handing over power to unelected people without any mechanism for changing their decisions.