The word "unilateral" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an action or decision that is done by only one side or party, without the participation of anyone else. For example, "The country decided to take unilateral action to protect its border."
An open and comprehensive approach is nevertheless urgently needed, along with a moratorium on new bilateral or unilateral changes.
James Ker-Lindsay, a Balkans expert at the London School of Economics, is more emphatic: "The legality of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is the most important case ever to come before the international court of justice.
This is a strictly unilateral assault, a grand act of persecution.
They again debated calling the SNP's bluff and hold a unilateral referendum in Scotland.
Speaking at his weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said: "Unilateral actions from the Palestinians will be answered with unilateral actions from our side".
A longstanding commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament also enabled nationalists to present themselves as more leftwing than Labour, and while on Trident they clearly were, it conveniently overshadowed similarities in economic terms.
Last week Microsoft filed its appeal: "The power to embark on unilateral law enforcement incursions into a foreign sovereign country – directly or indirectly – has profound foreign policy consequences.
Last year, the Palestinians agreed to suspend a campaign for unilateral recognition at the UN bodies in exchange for Israel's release of 104 prisoners who had been jailed before the Oslo peace process.
Livni said the prisoner release was contingent on the Palestinians refraining from making unilateral moves.
It also reneged on demands for a write down of its monumental debt – at over 175% of GDP one of the largest in the world – and conceded that it would not take any unilateral measures that would wreak havoc on its fiscal stability.
He was promptly confronted with the task of preserving party unity over policy towards Ian Smith's white minority regime in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), when it made its 1965 unilateral declaration of independence.
