Sentence examples for without unanimity from inspiring English sources

No. Without unanimity in the U.N. Security Council, there is no recourse to Chapter 7, no U.N. military cover.

But Europe's federal government — the European Union — is like the post-independence U.S. government under the Articles of Confederation: it's weak, it's atomized, it has feeble powers of taxation, and it can't act without unanimity or something close to it among its several states.

But I think some researchers outside the United States are going to decide to resume" their paused studies even without unanimity, he said.

But in a grouping where little happens without unanimity, a consensus has been hard to come by, especially if it involves a ceding of national sovereignty.

The current 10-page UN draft sanctions resolution was already diluted to death by permanent members Russia and China - and whatever bellicose language remains will be further shot down at the Security Council by non-permanent members Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon (without unanimity at the Security Council new sanctions are for all practical purposes dead).

Even a death penalty could be imposed without the unanimity required of civilian juries.

Some hold that a significant shift in national sovereignty occurs when such changes may occur without the unanimity characteristic of treaties.

In an interview with Reuters, ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré was quoted as saying that updates to the telecommunications regulations could be approved by a simple majority, but that, in practice, nothing would be adopted without near-unanimity.

Without doubt, the unanimity and brevity of Justice Scalia's opinion, at only eight pages, papered over deep divisions that have been apparent on the court during years of contention over the boundaries between federal authority and state prerogatives.

In the past that choice was made behind closed doors, and by unanimity, without a formal vote.

Those who approve of it see it as a way of getting round the veto of particular member countries (especially Britain); those who disapprove complain that without the need for unanimity, the Union might adopt policies against their wishes.