What's the difference between unaccountable and unexplainable?
Unaccountable
Definition:
(a.) Not accountable or responsible; free from control.
(a.) Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brian Donald said 5,000 children had disappeared in Italy alone, while another 1,000 were unaccounted for in Sweden .
(2) The only difference in the coding region sequence was confined to the joining region where three nucleotides, TTG, unaccountable by either V alpha or J alpha sequence, were present.
(3) If implemented, the ESM will reverse the greatest 19th-century political achievement in Europe: the transfer of the power to determine taxation and expenditure from unaccountable monarchical governments to formally accountable parliaments.
(4) think of the spines of the children, running handclap-heavy happy ads about unaccountable youth coaching standards and the “Heads Up” tackling program , a technique that works only in an NFL ad’s Smurf-like fantasyland divorced from the reality of tackling.
(5) Because there was never any obligation to pay any interest on these "loans", the total unaccounted sum is $910m.
(6) Critics complain that granting the multimillion-pound contract to a private consortium while freeing it of liability for a nuclear incident is such a poor deal for the taxpayer that it will render its new management unaccountable.
(7) Since this proportion was nearly as great as that found in the absence of directed air-flow, it seems probable that these strains were derived either from undetected sources within the section or were dispersed from the clothes of persons who entered it.Nearly one-third of the nasal acquisitions in the ward could not be related to known nasal carriers, but about one-half of these (16%) were probably ;spurious' and half of the remainder (8%) could be related to strains recovered from patients' lesions or drawsheets, leaving no more than 8% unaccounted for.
(8) [...] This money should be focused on delivering frontline services rather than lining the pockets of unaccountable charity executives."
(9) 5.05pm BST 5 mins: Even though the referee unaccountably gave England a goal-kick after that Campbell shot, Costa Rica have enjoyed most of the possession so far.
(10) Our results suggest that in humans both of these compounds may be involved in part of "unaccountable" early abortions and malformations claimed to be due to the toxicity of heavy metals.
(11) Even if TTIP is defeated, we still live in a world in which major corporations often have greater power than nation states: only organised movements that cross borders can have any hope of challenging this unaccountable dominance.
(12) Two Spanish tourists – a man and his pregnant wife – previously unaccounted for, were found after spending almost 24 hours hiding in the museum.
(13) The others remain unaccounted for after they were seized on Sunday.
(14) It has become Russia’s most powerful and unaccountable institution.
(15) The journalist Dele Giwa was not blown up so that, in 2014, the billions of dollars earmarked to fight a war on terror against a group much smaller and with fewer resources than the Nigerian army would unaccountably not suffice, and an additional $1bn would be needed to do the job.
(16) We had four groups still unaccounted for yesterday and it may be their priority is simply to get away from where they are.
(17) The association also appears to be strongest for local disease and weakest for the most invasive disease, which implies that the etiology for the more invasive endometrial cancers is largely unaccounted for by estrogen use.
(18) Successive governments have multiplied the number of acts that can be deemed criminal or misdemeanours, constructing a regime of unaccountable discretionary decisions that blight people’s lives.
(19) They are all but unaccounted for by the official figures because councils rarely designate them as statutorily homeless, even if they are indeed homeless.
(20) Nine people are now confirmed dead, and a further 19 remain unaccounted for as a slow-motion environmental catastrophe continues to unfold following the collapse of two mining dams in Brazil’s mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais.