Example sentences for: unilaterally

How can you use “unilaterally” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Tobacco CEOs can't even buy congressional friends--an unprecedented spectacle that astounds Cokie Roberts (ABC's This Week ). Perhaps Congress can unilaterally implement the derailed provisions, hope a few (Nina Totenberg and Jack Germond, Inside Washington ; Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ). Thomas disagrees, arguing that the Supreme Court will ixnay cigarette advertising restrictions on First Amendment grounds.

  • The authors recommended that the federal government invoke an obscure provision of the Controlled Substances Act of 1917 to revoke the licenses of doctors who dare to act on Proposition 215, and that the Drug Enforcement Administration ignore state authorities and "use its power" to "move unilaterally" against pro-pot doctors.

  • This does not faze the Times, which writes that the United States could unilaterally pull out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, despite what anyone thinks.

  • Last week's line was that Saddam's quarrel was with the United Nations, not the United States, but this week the emphasis shifted slightly to leave no doubt that the United States will settle the dispute, unilaterally if need be.

  • Fearful that Republicans will unilaterally dictate the resolution's language, Democrats refuse to consider it, preferring to end the trial and then debate a censure resolution under normal Senate rules, which would give Democrats the protective power of the filibuster.


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