impunity

impunityは名詞として抽象的な意味で、"損害を受けない状態"を指しますが、前置詞withを伴って、"with impunity"という形で現れることが多いです。

"impunity"の前には、修飾語として、"virtual"や"relative"、"relative"、"complete"といった形容詞が付加され、"impunity"である状況を強調します。


To ranchers who live in the area and occasionally have witnessed them, such operations resemble military exercises. But these are not soldiers on maneuvers. They are gangs of Mexican drug traffickers who have become increasingly brazen as they push tons of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and amphetamines across the Rio Grande into the United States with virtual impunity. According to residents and law enforcement officials, southwestern Texas these days is a frontier under siege.
(Washington Post. 1996.)