be above

But the message these pardons will send is clear: If you have wealth and power you are entitled to be above the law and any followers who do your dirty work can act outside the law.

Lawrence professes to be above all this nonsense.

The NFU has also released analysis which it says shows that “around 75% of commercial family farms will be above the £1 million threshold”.

In other words they, as in the time-honoured adage about Caesar’s wife, must be above suspicion.

And in some instances, oversight officials said, the unit’s own members appeared to be above the law.