He heads the most powerful Kurdish clan unchallenged, as his father did before him.
Underlying this is an unchallenged assumption that there's a "right" to live in a village.
Yet the obsession with spending cuts flourishes all the same - unchallenged, it must be said, by the White House.
Beckham was getting ready to kick a ball unchallenged late in Sunday's Serie a match when he suddenly pulled up and shouted to the Milan bench 'It's broken'.
By 1968, Cronkite and CBS had established a dominance in the evening news viewer ratings that would remain unchallenged for the rest of his tenure as anchor and managing editor.
Golf still reigns unchallenged as the corporate sport of choice.
People you disagree with are what gets you going, rather than idly going through an unchallenged stream of consciousness.
For many years and in many countries, the ideological hegemony of modernism was unchallenged and the desirable consequences of modernization through modernism unquestioned.
But Mr Sarkozy has a tight and unchallenged grip on the entire political right in France. The former prime minister, by contrast, has never been elected to any office, not even at local level.
Partly for this reason, the DIFC’s role as the Gulf’s financial hub is unchallenged for now.
A lot of folks, due to the fact that they're as lazy as it gets, prefer to limit themselves to a job that allows them to coast through each day unchallenged.
But a light that fails is still better than unchallenged darkness.
Everyone can relate to hitting a wall at work. Whether it's feeling unchallenged or underappreciated, most of the reasons people get stuck in their role can be resolved with planning.
But we need to remember one fact, small but relevant, that Kissinger does not pursue: namely, Crowe's memorandum did not go unchallenged.
Their sombre conclusion has not gone unchallenged, however.
Why control the disposal of municipal waste in such detail but allow utilities to pile up coal ash unchallenged?
