"If it wasn't for your unimpeachable reputation, Pond, I'd say you were trying to conceal something."

But Mr. Riegle, a Michigan Democrat, sits at the fulcrum of a political seesaw, where balancing would be difficult even for a lawmaker with an unimpeachable reputation.

"You'd take the word of a convicted killer over a detective inspector with an unimpeachable reputation?"

"That is Mr. Baggins, a hobbit of good family and unimpeachable reputation," said Gandalf.

His trainer, Porter had once remarked of his unimpeachable reputation, "there was not sufficient money in the Bank of England to bribe him to ride a crooked race."

"He knew who I was, of course, my family, my connection with your shop--your unimpeachable reputation."

Analysts said the shake-up was unexpected, but they welcomed the appointment of Mr. Bonfield, who is seen as having built an unimpeachable reputation at ICL.

Their officers, with few exceptions jailbirds, joked to one another about their "unimpeachable reputations" and their "honor."

Treitel-Gratz is a venerable second-generation metal shop with, as Berke suggests, an unimpeachable reputation.

He is an upstanding citizen, a taxpayer on a grand scale, and of unimpeachable reputation.