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How to use the word unilateral in a Sentence?

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Every president really in the modern era, especially in the last three or four decades, has stretched the use of unilateral action.

Steven Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are opposed to unilateral change of (the) status quo by force. So in that sense, we will make sure that if something happens in the Taiwan Strait, we have to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

Park Jin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The events of October 23rd were the result of the unforeseeable criminal actions of a rogue corrections officer. The individual in question chose to abandon his training, ethics and morals and made the unilateral decision to mortgage his career and future by allowing inmates access to the jail keys.

Larry Wilder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. President, we have respected the resolutions of international legitimacy and signed agreements, and we have committed ourselves to renouncing violence and fighting terrorism in our region and the world, mr. President, we look forward to the efforts of your administration to turn the page on the Israeli occupation of our land and the acts of racial discrimination, apartheid against our people; and to stop unilateral actions that undermine the two-state solution.

Mahmoud Abbas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They want, by unilateral executive order, the president of the United States drawing on the power in Section 432-B of the 1965 Higher Education Act to wipe out $650 million of student debt.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China is firmly opposed to any form of long-arm jurisdiction and unilateral sanctions.

Zhao Lijian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject electoral college votes.

Mike Pence

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a unilateral attempt to change the status quo and the act shakes the foundation of the international order. It’s an outright violation to international law and we strongly denounce the act, japan stands by the Ukrainian people who are fighting hard to defend their sovereignty and territory, their homeland and families.

Fumio Kishida

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It seems to me Vladimir Putin wants to threaten us into unilateral surrender and Joe Biden went out today and said it's not going to happen.

Ivo Daalder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The reality of the matter, what Vladimir Putin wants, is something we can not give Vladimir Putin through diplomacy. Vladimir Putin wants to control Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants to, in many ways, reset the European security order that was agreed to after the Cold War, it seems to me Vladimir Putin wants to threaten us into unilateral surrender and Joe Biden went out today and said it's not going to happen.

Ivo Daalder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes, i heard this week, President Trump said I had the right to ‘ overturn the election ’. President Trump is wrong … I had no right to overturn the election.

Mike Pence

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The confusion and chaos surrounding Gov. Hochul’s overreaching mask mandate reached an unfortunate peaktoday, i have said that unilateral requirements like the one being forced onto New Yorkers by the Hochul Administration are decisions that should remain at the local level. The Appellate Division has granted a stay of the governor’s order, but it’s time for all of us to move on from mandates, fear and confusion.

Republican Leader Will Barclay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Eastman's activities are perfectly clear at this point. John Eastman was the architect of the legal strategy to claim for the first time in American history that the Vice President had the unilateral authority to reject electoral college votes that were the result of popular elections.

Jamie Raskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We expect national unilateral taxes to be removed by 2024.

Daniele Franco

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

This brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision reminds me a lot of what Mr Trump used to do, i am angry and bitter. This isn't done between allies.

Jean-Yves Le Drian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision reminds me a lot of what Mr. Trump used to do, i am angry and bitter. This isn't done between allies.

Foreign Affairs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think The President has had a time to review the actual policies under President President Obama and all of the openings that President Obama made, which were one-sided, unilateral in terms of concessions, showed themselves to create absolutely no change inside of Cuba, so the result of that, I think, is the Biden administration looked and said,' Wait a minute. That didn't seem to work.'.

Bob Menendez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

President Biden missed a huge opportunity at the G-7 summit to stand up for America and deliver a plan to safely reopen, instead caving to Prime Minister Trudeau’s incessant desire to delay, i’ve called on the Biden Administration to begin taking unilateral steps towards easing restrictions for families and property owners, and the failure to do so is unacceptable for our northern border communities.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The terrorism approach will open up and afford greater intelligence and investigative tools. Utilization of Patriot Act type lawsand regulations willafford a more comprehensive U.S..S. and international approach to disruption and dismantlement of the organized crime aspects to each gang, the terrorism laws and applications will afford greater intelligence gathering and investigative capacity as well as unilateral prosecution abilities.

Robert Clark

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If an LDS temple has been announced in Shanghai, I think it means they probably had a' go' from Chinese officials to do so, even if the government says it is a unilateral statement -- they actually have no interest in making a bilateral statement, because that would send a message of religious openness.

Pierre Vendassi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We want to prevent some unilateral decision that can effect the opportunity to have treatments and vaccines for everyone.

Francesco Rocca

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If someone would say this is the intellectual property of this company ... and putting high prices on the vaccines, so making it impossible or very difficult to have access, this of course can have an impact on the most vulnerable, we want to prevent some unilateral decision that can effect the opportunity to have treatments and vaccines for everyone.

Francesco Rocca

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Any unilateral step is rejected whether it is taken before or after the election, facts can't be created on the ground and they will never become a reality.

Nabil Abu Rdainah

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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