Schumpeter s conclusions have not gone unchallenged.

When impunity for unspeakable acts goes unchallenged, those acts become even more unspeakable.

Those who roam unchallenged have become partners in a war against the country itself.

Is the dollar on the way out as the world's unchallenged reserve and trade currency?

The security fostered by America s unchallenged global power has been shown to be an illusion.

On the American side of the Atlantic, the usefulness of these automatic fiscal stabilizers is unchallenged.

For decades, the Congress Party of Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, basically ruled the country unchallenged.

Executives should make special efforts to break taboos, examine unchallenged assumptions, and question their businesses most sacred rules.

But few such restrictions have been legislated or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.

NEW YORK It was 20 years ago this month that Saddam Hussein, then the unchallenged ruler of Iraq, invaded Kuwait.

This restatement of fundamental precepts restored Confucianism to a primacy in China and neighboring states that remained unchallenged for 700 years.

Ethnocentrism results from the unchallenged understandings that we unwittingly carry with us, and which we cannot dispel by adopting another attitude.

Thus, despite today's political quiet, major cleavage between apparently unchallenged leaders and shifting popular moods may be gaining strength below the surface.

France's unchallenged political, economic, and military domination of its former sub Saharan African colonies is rooted in a currency, the CFA franc.

On the left side of the German political spectrum, the proposition that 8 May 1945 was a day of liberation remains unchallenged.

America s role as the world s banker went unchallenged for the next 40 years ago, until President Richard Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold.

Israel s policy of nuclear ambiguity has remained practically unchallenged for almost 50 years, not least within Israel itself, where the issue has been a sacred taboo.

This tale is further underlined by the growing role of the street, of demonstrations of public irritation focusing on particular issues but really directed against unchallenged governments.

Those who roam unchallenged have become partners in a war against the country itself. The Taliban in Pakistan, Hilaly concluded, have become an autonomous force beyond control.

The Party s unchallenged monopoly on political power systematically ensured that every mistake it made such as the dreadful decade of the Cultural Revolution turned into a prolonged nationwide crisis.

No other country has ever managed to assume such unchallenged riparian preeminence on a continent by controlling the headwaters of multiple international rivers and manipulating their cross border flows.

His reputation for command and control of the economy is magisterial and unchallenged, but he has given almost no clue as to what he thinks of other government policies.

They may still not like what he stands for and how he governs, but they will see that he is not the unchallenged strong man'' that some Europeans imagine.

Thus the political class becomes a kind of nomenklatura which remains unchallenged because of the apathy of the many, and when those who do not fit are silenced, nobody raises his or her voice.

How, in particular, can this situation be explained in view of the fact that today's unchallenged heads of government are (at least for the most part) not towering leaders whose charisma shields them from opposition?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has even warned that, left unchallenged by Russia s nuclear deterrent, the US would be tempted to intervene militarily in more countries, as it did in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya.

Putin understands instinctively that Russia needs elements of democracy, if only to distinguish the new Russia from the old, and to let the odd gust of healthy fresh air in. Unchallenged in his second and last term, will he retain even that slight democratic instinct?

But Europe should look beyond Berlusconi's careless tongue when gauging the nature of his regime. They may still not like what he stands for and how he governs, but they will see that he is not the unchallenged strong man'' that some Europeans imagine.

For example, Colorado and many other states have sought to require more stringent background checks, aimed at preventing those with criminal records or obvious mental health problems from arming themselves. But few such restrictions have been legislated or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.

His reputation for command and control of the economy is magisterial and unchallenged, but he has given almost no clue as to what he thinks of other government policies. He has remained dour and almost silent, visibly chafing with impatience to come into his inheritance, but offering no hint of what difference he would make when he does.

Ethnocentrism results from the unchallenged understandings that we unwittingly carry with us, and which we cannot dispel by adopting another attitude. If our tacit sense of the human condition can block our understanding of others, and if it is so fundamental to who we are that we cannot merely wish it away, are we utterly imprisoned in our own outlooks, unable to know others?

France's unchallenged political, economic, and military domination of its former sub Saharan African colonies is rooted in a currency, the CFA franc. Created in 1948 to help France control the destiny of its colonies, fourteen countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Bissau Guinea, and Chad maintained the franc zone even after they gained independence decades ago.