They must be, and long have been, insulated from political pressures.

He said creating an independent Real Estate Department would insulate land programs from political pressures.

This could cause problems, he suggested, because it would be "difficult to insulate the government's investment decisions from political pressures."

In only a few states do supreme court judges have the life tenure that insulates them from political pressures.

With their semi-independence from government, the agencies are more insulated from political pressures in making unpopular changes like layoffs.

Keeping the information agency independent insulates its work, including the Voice of America, from diplomatic pressures.

Once the decision was made to rely on Iraqi lawyers and American advisers, they should have been well insulated from political pressures.

He argues that both Government and business were insulated from pressures to become more efficient in the 1980's.

All the while it was insulated from most political pressures, except those exerted by the governors of the two states it linked.

The primary goal of life tenure is to insulate the officeholder from external pressures.