How to Use unilateral in a Sentence

unilateral

adjective

• Our country is prepared to take unilateral action.
• The White House has also pushed for unilateral action to help renters.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• The bureau threatened unilateral action in lieu of a basin-wide plan.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• The fact that these groups pose a common threat to Iran and Pakistan has left many perplexed by Tehran’s choice to take unilateral action.
  — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
• The coalition on Wednesday launched a unilateral cease-fire.
  — Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2022
• With the reverse lunge, the body is working through full range of motion in a unilateral position.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
• The court's unilateral action has done little to stem the scrutiny of the justices.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 June 2024
• Talks broke down two weeks ago after Cal State made a unilateral offer of a 5 percent pay raise.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• The new issue: Anaheim plans to build a fire station in the Angel Stadium parking lot, which the Angels say the city has no unilateral right to do.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• These are just two of many antivirals that could be combined in a unilateral attack on NSP3.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• One of the diplomats said it was hoped that the unilateral moves would lead to an agreement among all member states to do more in order to avoid risking damage to the EU’s united front.
  — Iain Rogers, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2022
• Thanks to this bent-over positioning—and the unilateral aspect in which just one side of your body is doing most of the work—you’ll also work your core muscles, too.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 17 Jan. 2024
• Because the problem is so big, unilateral action just won't work.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 16 Nov. 2021
• Now, Biden and his aides are poised to clear his $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan using the same unilateral process.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2021
• The good news: Walking lunges are a unilateral exercise.
  — Women's Health, 25 Mar. 2023
• The get became a bilateral process rather than a unilateral one.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
• This made a lot of sense, since running—the activity that has been giving me the most pain—features lots of unilateral engagement.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• The other was a 55-year-old male with a 25-year-old unilateral, above-elbow amputation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
• Francis warned from the outset against a unilateral effort.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• This will require the warring parties and their allies to take unilateral steps that convey their intentions to the other side.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
• If states cannot come up with a voluntary plan, Touton has said the federal government will step in and make unilateral cuts.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• By the same token, a strike is consistently described as a unilateral action threatened by the union.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Analysts expected those unilateral cuts, which expire at the end of the month, to be extended as well.
  — David McHugh, Fortune, 2 June 2024
• The three no’s date from a time of concern over the Kremlin overreacting to a unilateral nuclearization.
  — A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2023
• By early July, the governor had little choice but to sign the budget that ended his regime’s unilateral reign.
  — Mike Stenhouse, National Review, 1 Sep. 2021
• Activists have long pushed Biden to do so, but the White House has expressed worries in the past about its authority to take such unilateral measures, fearing that they might be overturned in the courts.
  — Erica L. Green and Lisa Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• Activists have long pushed Mr. Biden to do so, but the White House has expressed worries in the past about its authority to take such unilateral measures, fearing that they might be overturned in the courts.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Manchin’s other gripe is the perennial problem of unilateral delays of effective dates and deadlines in tax guidance, which in this case takes the form of a transition rule that wasn’t in the statute.
  — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Knesset plenum in February voted 99-11 to back the government’s decision to reject any unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood.
  — Amelie Botbol, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
• Conservative nationalists looked to isolationism to defend sovereignty and strengthen the unilateral exercise of U.S. power.
  — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024