How to Use unilateral in a Sentence

unilateral

adjective
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  • Our country is prepared to take unilateral action.
  • The White House has also pushed for unilateral action to help renters.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The bureau threatened unilateral action in lieu of a basin-wide plan.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The fact that these groups pose a common threat to Iran and Pakistan has left many perplexed by Tehran’s choice to take unilateral action.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The coalition on Wednesday launched a unilateral cease-fire.
    — Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • With the reverse lunge, the body is working through full range of motion in a unilateral position.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Talks broke down two weeks ago after Cal State made a unilateral offer of a 5 percent pay raise.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The new issue: Anaheim plans to build a fire station in the Angel Stadium parking lot, which the Angels say the city has no unilateral right to do.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • One of the diplomats said it was hoped that the unilateral moves would lead to an agreement among all member states to do more in order to avoid risking damage to the EU’s united front.
    — Iain Rogers, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Thanks to this bent-over positioning—and the unilateral aspect in which just one side of your body is doing most of the work—you’ll also work your core muscles, too.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Because the problem is so big, unilateral action just won't work.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The good news: Walking lunges are a unilateral exercise.
    — Women's Health, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The get became a bilateral process rather than a unilateral one.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This made a lot of sense, since running—the activity that has been giving me the most pain—features lots of unilateral engagement.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The other was a 55-year-old male with a 25-year-old unilateral, above-elbow amputation.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • Francis warned from the outset against a unilateral effort.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • This will require the warring parties and their allies to take unilateral steps that convey their intentions to the other side.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
  • If states cannot come up with a voluntary plan, Touton has said the federal government will step in and make unilateral cuts.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • By the same token, a strike is consistently described as a unilateral action threatened by the union.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The three no’s date from a time of concern over the Kremlin overreacting to a unilateral nuclearization.
    — A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2023
  • Activists have long pushed Biden to do so, but the White House has expressed worries in the past about its authority to take such unilateral measures, fearing that they might be overturned in the courts.
    — Erica L. Green and Lisa Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Activists have long pushed Mr. Biden to do so, but the White House has expressed worries in the past about its authority to take such unilateral measures, fearing that they might be overturned in the courts.
    — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • Manchin’s other gripe is the perennial problem of unilateral delays of effective dates and deadlines in tax guidance, which in this case takes the form of a transition rule that wasn’t in the statute.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Assuming that that’s true, however, Eastman still advised the Trump campaign in the two-page memo that Pence could take unilateral action.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2021
  • For opponents, space savers are a unilateral seizure of public space that reduce the supply for everyone.
    — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • There is little doubt that regulators want to reign in Big Tech but whether that will be accomplished through unilateral bans is unclear.
    — Olia Valigourskaia, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The archer pushup is a super-tough bodyweight exercise variation that gives you a unilateral challenge, but the most notable part of this move is the positioning.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But the Boston firm, which is in the process of going public, does have some concerns about Binance’s unilateral move to benefit its own stablecoin over Circle’s, a spokesman said.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • For those wary of the executive branch taking unilateral actions that affect their lives, today’s Supreme Court ruling is a win.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2022
  • Most recently Pope Francis was forced to accept the unilateral appointment of a new bishop of Shanghai.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023

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