Sentence examples for to proceed unilaterally from inspiring English sources

Although Russia had been invited by NATO at its summit in Lisbon in 2010 to cooperate in setting up a joint ballistic missile defense system, or B.M.D., the alliance is now poised to proceed unilaterally, leaving Russia out in the cold.

When members of Congress went to court to challenge the constitutionality of the Persian Gulf war, President George H. W. Bush did not proceed unilaterally.

During his European trip, President Bush has enunciated his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol and his intention of proceeding unilaterally with a missile defense system.

Sagan suggested that to achieve an imagined climatic optimum deforestation in the Amazon "may even be desirable, as a counterbalance to greenhouse heating of the earth", though they noted, "it would seem prudent, on an issue of possible global importance, to study its implications in some detail before proceeding unilaterally" (Sagan et al. 1979).

And if the president proceeds unilaterally, Congress should take further steps to defend its role in foreign policy.

Reform of financial systems has proceeded unilaterally, not cooperatively.

If Washington and its European partners proceeded unilaterally, he said, the proposal "would go beyond decisions agreed upon by the international community and would run counter to the principle of the supremacy of international law guaranteed by the U.N. charter".

"They decided unilaterally to proceed without me as the host of the show I created, wrote and maintained for 32 years".

Turkish officials have warned the Cypriot government in recent months not to proceed with gas extraction unilaterally, saying it would risk further inflaming political tension with Ankara.

This also means no board member should unilaterally decide how to proceed.

On Friday, in its most definitive statement yet on the subject, the White House again ruled out the possibility that Mr. Obama would cite the 14th Amendment to disregard the debt-limit law and unilaterally order government borrowing to proceed if no deal was reached by Tuesday's deadline for raising the debt ceiling.