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Kennedy’s address to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during her confirmation hearing elicited bipartisan support – a rare occurrence nowadays, given America’s highly polarized national politics – and she received unanimous approval.
It would also have shown the international community to be unanimous in its rejection of repression and committed to protecting the Syrian people (though the draft made no mention of military intervention).
Independent Russian economic experts are unanimous in sharing this grim conclusion.
That caricature, if ever true, is certainly not true today: the business community's negative reaction to the persecution of Khodorkovsky by the law enforcement agencies has been strong and nearly unanimous.
Last year, when my left-wing colleagues were virtually unanimous in believing the New York Police Department’s narrative of a certain victim and a guilty-before-due-process rapist, I made the same call – to the local rape-crisis center.
Unfortunately, unanimous support for the necessary EU treaty changes simply could not be secured.
All these values are accepted pillars of political and institutional stability in today's Europe, and command nearly unanimous agreement.
The answer was virtually unanimous: the majority chose a European country.
But international pressure on the P5 has been mounting for the last 15 years – and especially since the General Assembly’s unanimous embrace in 2005 of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) principle.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December could mark a turning point in world history: unanimous recognition of the need to act to prevent the most harmful consequences of global warming.
In the longer run, some of Macron’s reforms should be possible, especially if the eurozone countries are allowed to move forward without unanimous approval from all 27 EU member countries.
But there were other important firsts that occurred on Annan’s watch: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was created; $100 billion of African debt was forgiven; aid to the poorest countries rose fast; the Responsibility to Protect principle moved from one man’s aspiration to unanimous endorsement by the United Nations General Assembly; and the first steps toward the Paris climate agreement were taken.
Interestingly, the British government’s review does not mention the need to transfer to the national level any of the competences defined by the Treaty of Lisbon, which would require the unanimous consent of the member states (and thus can be ruled out as a possibility).
But the bottom line is that constitutional changes can only be carried by unanimous agreement, and several member governments, starting with the UK, would resist any overtly federalist agenda.
Experts are unanimous: the financial, food and energy crisis will hammer the “bottom billion” – the poorest in some 60 countries that survive on around a dollar a day – the hardest.
The European Commission, the Council of Europe, and press watchdog groups were unanimous in criticizing the legislation, but the Hungarian government persists in its media crackdown.
India’s government has reacted with fury to the mistreatment of an official enjoying diplomatic immunity, and public indignation has been widespread and nearly unanimous.
Yet Ban has inspired global confidence in his leadership to the point of securing an uncontested and unanimous second mandate.
Europe would take common action related to foreign affairs only on unanimous grounds.
Despite the international community’s almost unanimous demand for restraint, North Korea is highly unlikely to roll back its launch plans.
And the international condemnation of Qaddafi’s atrocities today has been swift, unqualified, and effectively unanimous.
The participants – who included dozens of foreign ministers – were unanimous in stressing that membership of the CD is a privilege.
But a few topics will have to remain subject to unanimous decision, given their special nature.
In fact, the view that banks need more capital, while widespread, is not unanimous.
The United Nations Security Council responded with a unanimous vote to impose new economic sanctions on the country – the most stringent yet – which would cut at least one third of its annual export revenue.
This is notwithstanding the United Nations Security Council’s unanimous adoption in January of a resolution opposing payment of such ransoms, and a similar declaration at last year’s G-8 summit – which was signed by some of the governments that have continued to pay.
Thus, it is nearly certain that, assuming a final agreement with Iran is reached in June, Europe’s backing for it will be unanimous – or close to it – and that it will be eager to support Obama in his battle with opponents of the deal at home.
In theory, no amendment – not even a unanimous vote to amend the constitution – can touch these institutions.
Significantly, it requires unanimous consent from the EU’s 27 member states – always a nail biter in today’s charged and polarized political environment.
The country had to restructure its debt, but unanimous creditor agreement was impossible; there were holdouts, some of which might be inadvertent, but one of which might be Elliott.
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