The powerful still act with impunity and use bribes or muscles to get their way.
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman told MPs that Savile's "exalted" status within the corporation allowed him to act with impunity.
Make sure they know that they do not act with impunity, and that the chickens will eventually come home to roost.
And political leaders willing to torture or kill as a matter of policy will no longer be able to act with impunity.
As a result, it is not just the Islamists of Gaza who think they can act with impunity against America's only enduring ally in the region, Israel.
With Israel out of Gaza, Egypt will be able to act with impunity, escalating its support for the very terrorist forces that both the U.S. and Israel are now fighting.
"Whilst we await the outcome of the inquests and investigations into these recent deaths, it is imperative that the police are reminded that they cannot act with impunity, " she added.
"There's a belief that they have that the criminal groups do sort of take advantage of the media and the attention in order to create fear, basically, and therefore space to act with impunity, " Wilson said.
The magnitude of this travesty is evident in the North's belief that it could act with impunity concerning the pilots it captured and killed, even though the United States is supposed to have enormous leverage in the form of oil supplies, multi-billion reactors and normalized political and economic ties.
Unless the United States is willing to be clear in its support of reformist and democratic forces and to impose meaningful penalties in response to unacceptable conduct, the hard-line communists in Beijing will have established that they can act with impunity against the Chinese people and fear no serious economic and financial repercussions from the West.
" Noting that the bulk of the arms sales targeted in the President's package are not scheduled for delivery until 1991, Gaffney added, "Unless additional measures are adopted promptly, the authorities in Beijing -- and possibly communist leaders facing similar demands elsewhere -- may conclude that they can act with impunity against their people and fear no serious economic and financial repercussions from the West.
It means we can quit or forge any coalition, disobey any international edict, act with near impunity, and no one can do much about it.
It would embolden terrorists in the region who might believe that they could act with more impunity if they were operating under the protection of Iran.
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It is -- and it is a warning that we made to our fellow ambassadors and others up at the United Nations prior to the United Nations Security Council vote, that failure to pass that resolution would be, essentially, a signal to Assad that he could act with further impunity in brutalizing his own people, killing innocent Syrian civilians.
Speaking to the Today programme's John Humphrys, Mr Hague said that time is against the Assad regime which has continued to act with "seeming impunity".
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