Sentence examples for to act multilaterally from inspiring English sources

Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, urged the US to act multilaterally and not as a "global unilateralist".

The United States needs only a little prodding to act multilaterally when it comes to, say, complying with World Trade Organization rules.

"So now the Libyan people are paying a very high price in blood because of our failure to act, and because of this overwhelming priority of having to act multilaterally".

That is curious, given that this is one of the few cases where Mr Bush has volunteered to act multilaterally, and that North Korea's Kim Jong-Il has all along been demanding bilateral talks.The prime example of inconsistency, though, is Iraq.

In fact, the passage in question makes precisely the opposite point and is worth quoting in full so that readers have the correct context:Once we get beyond matters of self-defence, though, I'm convinced that it will almost always be in our strategic interest to act multilaterally rather than unilaterally when we use force around the world.

And it has the continent's most effective army.When the new rulers took over in 1994, they pledged themselves to act multilaterally; some said, privately, that they did not want South Africa to throw its weight around, because of its past record of beating up its neighbours.

But it should act multilaterally, including mustering other countries to add to the pressure on Beijing to act by the rules.

America's Asian allies need to act more multilaterally.

While concentrating on trying to keep the peace in fewer treacherous places, it has tried to act more multilaterally.

Clegg added: "We've got to bring the Trident deterrent down to the absolute minimum and use the remaining capability to act responsibly and multilaterally, not only to disarm ourselves but the world too".

At present, we notice how the United States, which has operated more multilaterally over the past few months, has now started to act more unilaterally again over the past few days by withdrawing from the ABM Treaty, and is also taking a far more unilateral course with regard to a number of other treaties.