But if the good guys on "24" go about their work largely unaccountable to law or to public opinion, they remain obligated, within the show's moral order, to one another.

After some study, it found that Ross had suffered for years with a sloppy state of corporate governance that enabled the company to be largely unaccountable to its shareholders.

The TEC's were largely unaccountable and the basis of operation varied greatly from area to area.

At its height in 1991, the city put some 49,000 children in foster care through private contract agencies that were largely unaccountable to the public.

Could only exist within the BBC structure which in effect is largely unaccountable.

Members of Congress and officials in the aviation industry denounce the agency as a bureaucratic money pit (it spent nearly $6 billion in the 2002 fiscal year) that is largely unaccountable to legislative oversight.

Doctors have more control over the treatment received by their patients but remain largely unaccountable to the public and management.

Child-abuse prevention programs are wholly inadequate, and child protective services, while varying in quality from state to state, are in many instances overwhelmed and largely unaccountable.

At present the, largely unaccountable, "professionals" do whatever they decide they want to do, which for some people is not enough, and for others is too much.

The estate is criticised for lacking ecological expertise, being undemocratic and largely unaccountable.