A member of the wealthy elite, he is deemed politically untouchable and so cannot be charged with treason.

Like so much of the social security system it had become regarded as politically untouchable.

They search for the courage to touch politically untouchable programs like Social Security.

But even the advocates describe the tradition as politically untouchable.

What the commission ought to be investigating is whether the gambling industry has become so powerful that it's politically untouchable.

Some, like the mortgage interest deduction, are politically untouchable.

"They think he wants to protect his own image, and to make himself untouchable politically, the way Reno did, by doing the righteous thing."

But it can't, because the gambling industry has become so powerful that it's politically untouchable.

Or, maybe, to mention the politically untouchable, improving the nation's health care and extending its availability.

The 1905 law, however, is often considered politically untouchable.