There is unanimity on the situation.

It flouts United Nations resolutions and, indeed, international unanimity.

There was no unanimity among the participants on these matters.

And no summit requiring unanimity from 191 nations can be more than modest.

But unfortunately, consensus (often interpreted as requiring unanimity) has become an end in itself.

But unanimity as to what treaties are or are not cancelled by war does not exist.

One delegation proposed including regional bodies in paragraph 2 (d), but there was no unanimity on that proposal.

The Working Group established under rule 106, paragraph 1, may also declare a complaint admissible by majority vote or inadmissible by unanimity.

There was then and there still is today unanimity in this House that reproductive cloning is an abhorrent prospect and must be banned unequivocally.

The best hope for achieving unanimity was to adopt the language of compromise proposed by the delegations of New Zealand, Egypt, China and Jordan.

Having said this, we do regret that it was necessary, in order to obtain unanimity, to include an abstention option in the Protocol in situations of natural disaster.

Furthermore, the fact that these are more than 120 sponsors demonstrates the overall unanimity of the international community, as represented in the General Assembly, with regard to developments in Afghanistan.

Here in this forum of the First Committee, however, the large majority of States may demonstrate their commitment to the principles of the NPT without the limitations caused by the need for unanimity.

It was also noted that given the lack of unanimity among States and in doctrine on a number of issues concerning the topic, guidelines would be the most appropriate form for a final document.

We recall that the September summit mandated the General Assembly to continue the debate on that concept a concept about which there is still no unanimity within the international community and whose parameters still need to be rigorously defined.

The economic and environmental crises before us are too urgent to play games that give the appearance of international unanimity. It is past time to address not only global warming and the economic crisis, but also the international decision making process.

They spoke with near unanimity when it came to the dangers of government over regulation. Their technical expertise or what seemed like it at the time gave them a privileged position as opinion makers, as well as access to the corridors of power.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

(b) The growing importance of achieving intellectual and cultural unanimity in combating racism and xenophobia and the need to draw up an intellectual strategy for the fight against racism to be applied in the area of ideas, concepts, images, representations, perceptions and value systems

The EU s current lack of unanimity on many world issues, as well as continental issues such as Ukraine, is no reason for despair. The trick for the Union is to develop shared solutions and to take joint foreign policy actions, even when various EU governments see things differently.

If this roadblock cannot be overcome and the agreement stalls, the Abe government s approval ratings will suffer, despite progress in the negotiations. Given the unanimity with which Kennedy was confirmed, she may be able to use her own political capital to help sell fast track authority in Congress.

The EU s current lack of unanimity on many world issues, as well as continental issues such as Ukraine, is no reason for despair. The trick for the Union is to develop shared solutions and to take joint foreign policy actions, even when various EU governments see things differently.

The increasing detachment of the budget from the Union s objectives is sustained by decision making procedures that authorize the European Council, representing member governments, to take all the important decisions according to a rule of unanimity, with the European Parliament and the European Commission confined to a minor role.

The equilibrium in voting rights between small and large member states was also secured by vesting exclusive authority to propose regulation in the Commission, which expresses the common interests of the Community. This authority was reinforced by requiring unanimity among member states to overrule the Commission a provision that has strengthened the smaller states against the larger ones.

For all these reasons, purchasing private sector securities alone will not enable the ECB to achieve its stated goal of expanding its balance sheet by 1 trillion ( 1.2 trillion). Unable to vanquish the specter of deflation, ECB President Mario Draghi will need to continue working to build a consensus even better, unanimity within the bank s governing board for purchases of government bonds.

There is no unanimity requirement or veto in the General Assembly, which might well be why it has not been called upon in the effort to fight climate change. Yet the General Assembly is the only place where obstruction by major countries for example, by China and the United States at December s global climate talks in Copenhagen can be bypassed.

In an anonymous leak to a major financial news service, an ECB official falsely maintained that unanimity was needed for a rate hike, implying a single dove could stop it. Infuriated by what he considered to be guerilla tactics, Trichet effectively silenced the mischief makers by the bold stroke of pre announcing the rate hike two weeks before the meeting.

This has put the EU in its usual quandary everybody recognizes that there is a problem, but a solution requires unanimity, which cannot be achieved, because each country defends only its own interests. The only way forward is to leave out the countries that are most averse to accepting immigrants, at least temporarily, and create a solution involving just those that are willing to share the burden.

When it attempts to do more, it finds that there is neither unanimity of opinion nor uniformity of practice When I ask what that principle or standard is, and endeavour to extract it from the long chapters in the books, I get this, and nothing more, that provisions compatible with a state of hostilities, unless expressly terminated, will be enforced, and those incompatible rejected.

For the UK, which opted out of the euro, this is a cause for concern, as it could leave the country on the sidelines of major decision making processes especially if the necessary shift toward weighted majority voting removes the need for unanimity in more areas. Cameron already has pressed for an emergency brake mechanism to slow down decisions on issues that are important to the non euro countries.

NEW YORK The dire economic situation in which most of the rich world found itself in 2011 was not merely the result of impersonal economic forces, but was largely created by the policies pursued, or not pursued, by world leaders. Indeed, the remarkable unanimity that prevailed in the first phase of the financial crisis that began in 2008, and which culminated in the 1 trillion rescue package put together for the London G 20 meeting in April 2009, dissipated long ago.

Many kinds of pushback can be expected, not least the argument that the veto exists not to protect the P5 s interests, but to ensure unanimity of the major players (conspicuously missing in the UN s ill fated predecessor, the League of Nations) in any action undertaken, in order to maintain international peace and security. We will be told that it is unconscionable to ask a P5 member to forgo a veto when it genuinely believes that a proposed resolution will cause more harm than good.