But with Republicans virtually united in opposition, Democrats can afford only 15 defections.
He actually turned a Europe divided over Jean-Claude Juncker, into a Council virtually united against David Cameron.
But across a swath of forest in Sarayaku, the main Kichwa town, people were virtually united in their opposition.
Economists are virtually united in asserting that a combination of these demand and supply-side levers are the way to get a handle on a wasteful system.
We were soon a nation at war, virtually united in resolve to strike Al Qaeda and the Taliban in their Afghan havens and to hunt down Bin Laden.
Wall Street forecasters are virtually united in saying the string will stop there, although a year ago they were forecasting that the year just ended would have increases.
Moreover, the big businesses that finance the Conservative Party are virtually united in their desire for Britain to say inside the E.U. and its enormous market.
Forty-two Democrats bucked their leadership to join a virtually united Republican Party and to declare that the United States must complete "the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure and united Iraq" without setting "an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of U.S. troops.
Democrats warned that House Republicans, who appear to be virtually united against the measure, would be casting a risky vote if they aligned themselves against legislation seeking to protect the public from abusive financial practices and prevent another Wall Street collapse.
The United States is on the defensive on this issue, however, because scores of nations and dozens of independent international arms control groups --some of them run by former American disarmament officials -- are virtually united in opposing the new missile defense system.
In such circumstances, the last thing that the President needed was a bitter nomination fight in the Senate, especially one in which the liberal wing of his party, which is virtually united against a Summers nomination, was on the opposing side.
