Sentence examples for close to unanimity from inspiring English sources

All this attention seems only right, or at least it does to a critic who grew up in the years when Copland was regarded, with something close to unanimity, as the "dean of American composers".

The resolution approved Monday was originally scheduled for a decision on Friday, but its two sponsors, Britain and France, delayed consideration in the hope of getting as close to unanimity as possible.

But when, after a few weeks, she emerged from a coma, it was only to enter a "persistent vegetative state," with no evidence or hope of improvement — a diagnosis that, in the fifteen years since, has been confirmed, with something close to unanimity, by many neurologists on many occasions on behalf of many courts.

What is already apparent is that within the Iraqi oil bureaucracy, "there is close to unanimity" that "natural resources should remain under the sovereignty of the state," according to a recent paper presented at an energy conference in Houston by Issam A. R. al-Chalabi, a former Iraqi oil minister and now an independent consultant based in Amman, Jordan.

As a confederation and quasi-governmental entity, the E.U. requires something close to unanimity, or at least strong consensus, to make key decisions.

With something close to unanimity, politicians and policy-oriented intellectuals interpreted the unification of Berlin and the ensuing collapse of communism as an all-American victory of cosmic proportions.

And there is a powerful institutional imperative here: to come as close as possible to unanimity.

Proportions close to 100% were defined as unanimity in the interpretation of a particular case as a complication; the same applied for numbers close to 0% for cases not being considered as a complication.

Yesterday, coming as close as they could to unanimity, all but one of Manhattan's City Council members voted to oppose the zoning plan as drafted, urging instead a measure with greater public review and tighter geographical limits to protect the Clinton neighborhood to the west of the theater district.

But Europe's federal government — the European Union — is like the post-independence U.S. government under the Articles of Confederation: it's weak, it's atomized, it has feeble powers of taxation, and it can't act without unanimity or something close to it among its several states.

But sources close to the process claimed there had been "frantic arm-twisting" in a bid to achieve unanimity.