In 2012 for example, Gates warned publicly in a speech that it would be disastrous if Israel were to unilaterally strike Iran .
And do it unilaterally if it must (and with the moribund peace process, it must).
And neither he, nor his secret police squad or some lawyer from Detroit, get to change that unilaterally on a whim.
But that was so yesterday, much like his contention that he lacked the power to unilaterally confer amnesty.
unilaterally sticking to peace will only encourage further kidnapping.
And there is nothing we can do unilaterally to solve immigration.
The historically acceptable conditions under which a president can unilaterally order the military into action are clear.
A unilaterally achieved vote by the General Assembly does not.
Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim it so to be.
Valve turgid in the middle and at the apices which are unilaterally truncate.
1802, from Modern Latin unilateralis, from unum, neuter of unus "one" (see one) + latus (genitive lateralis) "side" (see oblate (n.)). Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) may have been the first to use it in the legal sense of "made or entered into by one party." Unilateral disarmament is recorded from 1929.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. [William Ralph Inge, "Outspoken Essays," 1919]
unilateral u·ni·lat·er·al (yōō'nə-lāt'ər-əl)
adj.
On, having, or confined to only one side.
