Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being unanimous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unanimous; agreement in opinion or resolution of all the persons concerned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being unanimous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of agreement by all parties, the state of being
unanimous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun everyone being of one mind
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Examples
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I agree with the other commenters — this unanimity is totally artificial and unconvincing.
Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In a two-question poll, unanimity is therefore 83% — anything higher and the poll is probably biased.
Matthew Yglesias » Interracial Dating Versus Heliocentrism 2007
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Nor did the wider Arab world rally in unanimity toward Hezbollah.
Foreign policy? What foreign policy? Helen 2006
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Jeff Idelson, Hall of Fame communications vice president, says unanimity is virtually impossible.
USATODAY.com - Gwynn, Ripken deserve 100% of Hall votes 2001
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"Every body" agrees the beauties of Box Hill are worth seeing, but when Emma and the Highbury contingent actually begin their sightseeing, cantonising, and not unanimity, is the order of the day.
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At the present time, unanimity is required for changing the amending formula.
A National Vision 1991
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It may be argued that a requirement of unanimity is too inflexible to be applied to the distribution of legislative powers, but this distribution is basic to the Canadian federation ... the law has not said so, but the facts of national life have imposed the unanimity requirement, and experience since Confederation has established it as a convention that a government or Parliament would disregard at its peril.
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This does not always lead to a unanimity of view, but unanimity is rarely necessary.
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Complete unanimity is really too much to expect amongst 15 nations whose interests, although often similar, are seldom identical.
Canada's Defence 1963
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If unanimity is not reached, the legislation provides for allocation by means of an automatic formula.
Australia Revisited 1956
gulyasrobi commented on the word unanimity
When taking decisions on some issues, the Council of the European Union has to be in unanimous agreement – i.e. all countries have to agree. Any disagreement, even by one single country, will block the decision. This would make progress very difficult in a Union of 27 countries, so the unanimity rule now applies only in particularly sensitive areas such as asylum, taxation and the common foreign and security policy. In most fields, decisions are now taken by qualified majority voting.
May 19, 2012