The phrase "unilateral demand" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a request or demand made by one person or party without the approval or consent of others involved. It usually implies that the demand is forceful and one-sided. Example: The company's CEO made a unilateral demand for all employees to work overtime without offering any compensation.
Fehr conveniently forgot that Pete Rose, a certain choice for the Hall of Fame, was confronted with a unilateral demand by Commissioner Bart Giamatti in 1989 with evidence of illegal gambling.
Instead, he blamed Peter V. Ueberroth, the commissioner in 1985, for making a unilateral demand for testing and penalties after the Pittsburgh scandal, in which dozens of familiar names were linked with cocaine.
He presented a last-minute unilateral demand that would have partially overturned the principle of majority voting on single-market rules, which Britain itself first put forward under Margaret Thatcher over 20 years ago.
Re "Baseball Receives Conclusions, Not Closure," Dec. 16: George Vecsey stated that Donald M. Fehr of the players union "blamed Peter V. Ueberroth, the commissioner in 1985, for making a unilateral demand for testing and penalties," implying that such action against the use of illegal drugs was unconstitutional.
With a unilateral demand for an abrogation of India's decision, protests in different forms rallies, human chains, protest meetings, seminars and symposia, strikes, and so forth continue to carry on across the country.
China has been more willing to adjust its conduct to meet international standards it has freely embraced than to respond to unilateral demands.
During the speech, Mr. Kim blamed the collapse of his summit meeting with Mr. Trump in February on what he described as unilateral demands by the United States.
The British and the French are reluctantly going along, though they say they fear that unilateral demands would blow up an arrangement that is working.
What Mexico wants, Mr. Aguilar Zinser said, is for "those U.S. institutions to begin to trust" Mexico by sharing intelligence, and not to simply "expect us to be the recipient of unilateral demands".
To defuse tensions and ward off the missile launch, the US "should stop at once arrogant provocations against the DPRK and unilateral demands and not provoke it any longer", he said.
On Sunday, a spokesman for the Civil Service Employees Association, the largest union of state workers, said that the association was open to discussions with Mr. Cuomo, but was uncomfortable with unilateral demands.
