Unanimity, or near unanimity, is a rare thing in horse racing.
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The deal needs unanimity among the 28 EU nations, and Belgium needs unanimity among its regions.
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But FCA is resisting its demands for a unanimity rule.
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This would need the unanimity of all other EU states.
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No, the explanation for this level of unanimity is clearer.
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Any extension would require unanimity of the remaining EU states.
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The common foreign and security policy still works on unanimity.
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Most were anonymous and no unanimity emerged among the views.
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"We must never conflate unity and unanimity," Perez told INSIDER.
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The EU needs unanimity to impose or extend any sanctions.
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Changing the dates would require unanimity, several OPEC sources said.
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In 652, Jackie Robinson fell 36 votes short of unanimity.
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The lineup change did not seem to engender unanimity, either.
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Enlargement requires unanimity, meaning Macron would have power of veto.
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Whether the same unanimity exists over North Korea is extremely doubtful.
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Any new EU sanctions would require unanimity among all 28 states.
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Requiring unanimity boosts the care that a jury takes in deliberation.
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There's been no unanimity on the left about how to respond.
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Yet, they said, sentencing somebody to death does not require unanimity.
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This public near-unanimity is one reason Medicare is so popular.
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For the sake of unanimity, some of the language was weakened.
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Tonight was the first time some cracks showed in that unanimity.
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And I don't have unanimity in my own caucus about this.
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It would be hard to overstate how rare this ecumenical unanimity is.
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VETO POWER Enlargement requires unanimity, meaning Macron would have power of veto.
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Normally, unanimity in the House of Commons is reserved for uncontroversial topics.
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But an extension requires an EU unanimity that few in Brussels expect.
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Extending it would require unanimity among the other 27 EU member countries.
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The new proposal will require unanimity among EU states to go ahead.
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Trump "seeks Republican unity, not unanimity," reads one of the talking points.
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The Circuit Court decision, despite its unanimity, is questionable on the law.
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But unanimity has essentially erased the question from the party's policy debates.
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It's close to unanimity that our corporate tax rate is too high.
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The European Council – grouping EU governments – agrees climate targets now by unanimity.
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There has been no such unanimity when it comes to the solution.
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"There's unanimity in Turkey that this isn't a good idea," he said.
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In February, there was even more unanimity: 21 gave that positive assessment.
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The parties' unanimity is reflecting the polarization of the electorate at large.
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And whether the WTO will go ahead and say look that there's nothing in the rules that requires unanimity, they can go ahead and appoint new judges without the unanimity, which has been a practice in the past.
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Democrats were in near unanimity against Kavanaugh, a conservative federal appeals court judge.
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The Security Council North Korea sanctions committee works on the basis of unanimity.
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The vote on Capitol Hill registered complete unanimity -- a stunning 393 to 0.
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The first time Tribune Publishing sent Gannett packing, it noted the board's unanimity.
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It sets a two-year deadline that can be extended only by unanimity.
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That unanimity came despite widespread criticism by economists that it was not necessary.
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The court's legitimacy, of course, rests on more than unanimity or incremental change.
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Experts and pundits are in rare unanimity over the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs.
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"Really that's the debate and that's why there hasn't been unanimity," he said.
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He brushed off the fact that he fell one vote short of unanimity.
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The market initially took that unanimity as a more hawkish-than-expected sign.
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"The unanimity rule has become an obstacle, a permanent blockade," Mr. Verhofstadt said.
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In the stock market, by contrast, there's near unanimity that higher is always better.
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Early in his tenure, Roberts said that promoting unanimity and collegiality were a priority.
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It will be much more difficult to find such unanimity within South Korean society.
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Neither should the tradition of non-intervention, nor an insistence on unattainable regional unanimity.
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Nor will the proposal easily become reality: tax changes in the EU require unanimity.
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He told reporters that to preserve the unanimity on tax decisions was "extremely important".
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California conservatives also have the mentality, and the unanimity, of a people under threat.
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But that appearance of unanimity masked a welter of executive-level indecision and anxiety.
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Demanding maximum ambition and unanimity at the same time is a recipe for frustration.
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There is, first and foremost, no unanimity on the perfect ratio of its ingredients.
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"There is total unanimity," said Tom Nickels, an executive vice president for the association.
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But the relative unanimity of GOP support for Tillerson could also backfire on Rubio.
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A guilty verdict was a possibility, though; but the jury could not find unanimity.
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"There's unanimity on a need to act," said one banker briefed on the matter.
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The unanimity is particularly pronounced in Western European and NATO allies, which make sense.
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The advantage of those who want easing is that you need unanimity to extend sanctions.
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With such unanimity of opinion, site neutrality has become a sine qua non payment policy.
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Five voters denied Seaver unanimity — three of them to protest Pete Rose's ineligibility for election.
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RFRA was supported by a coalition so varied that it stunned Congress into near unanimity.
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Despite unanimity that harassment must be addressed, one Democrat complained leaders weren't being aggressive enough.
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KURTZ: The two companies are separate but we have rare unanimity on this particular one.
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The founding era is often described as a golden age of brotherhood and unanimity. Hardly.
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EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Wednesday must decide by unanimity on any further delay.
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The session ended on a note of unity, although not, as the chair noted, unanimity.
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In Wisconsin, the top conservative talkers displayed an unusual unanimity in their opposition to Trump.
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But there was no break in that political unanimity, and the community response was overwhelming.
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"Some of those proposals require unanimity, and we certainly won't be supporting that," she said.
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Impeaching Trump would, he's right, basically require a Democratic majority and unanimity within the party.
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Normally, Council decisions are by consensus - in effect, unanimity - but easier terms might be negotiated.
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According to EU rules, the withdrawal treaty is adopted by qualified majority and not unanimity.
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So the unanimity of views can be hard to escape until it contributes to a crisis.
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But in practice any concrete penalty is unlikely as that would require unanimity among EU governments.
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There is no unanimity within the EU bloc, however, over its future enlargement in the region.
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That unanimity was by no means a measure of widespread agreement with Justice Scalia's judicial philosophy.
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While unanimity would have been the preferred option, a majority vote is enough to keep him.
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Unanimity among member states is a precondition for the deal, and Belgium was the only holdout.
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"I hope that of the trend continues and we get unanimity on Thursday," the official said.
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In the very first election, in 1936, Ty Cobb came up four votes short of unanimity.
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With near unanimity, colleagues and admirers praised Professor Reinhardt for transforming raw data into moral imperatives.
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He didn't have unanimity among conservative groups and funders the way she did with liberal ones.
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Their near unanimity on policy has forced them to be creative in their bid for attention.
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There was something close to unanimity on the right in its opposition to Mr. Obama's agenda.
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The decision came after Cyprus came on board, as any EU move on sanctions requires unanimity.
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"When there is no unanimity (in the EU), the remaining majority have to act," Borrell said.
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The hike was the third of this year and the display of unanimity at the Sept.
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Committee Chairman Greg Walden hailed the unanimity of Republicans on the committee in approving the bill.
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"For once there was absolute unanimity in the room," Red Bull boss Christian Horner told Sky Sports.
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The proposal is an interim measure and requires unanimity among the EU's member states to be adopted.
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"The plan to overcome unanimity blockades with a unanimous decision is absurd and obviously ineffective," he added.
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Whatever happens, there is a startling degree of unanimity that the president just committed a major misstep.
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Rivera Schatz, widely thought to be interested in the governorship, celebrated Wednesday's announcement, touting the court's unanimity.
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Since action requires unanimity among member states, it is unlikely either country will lose their voting rights.
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But there was near unanimity that it was important to nominate someone who could defeat Mr. Trump.
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"They weren't voting on ISIS when they had near unanimity on wanting to do something," said Sen.
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The uniformity and unanimity on this issue is seldom seen in the divisive arena of American politics.
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All but two states approved of the proposal, but because unanimity was required, it did not pass.
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With only 51-52 Republican senators, leadership would need unanimity within the caucus to get a second reconciliation bill through, and with Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch suggesting he wants bipartisan support for tax changes, unanimity behind a partisan, reconciliation-passed cut could be tough to achieve.
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Such an extension requires the consent of all 28 member states, and reaching that unanimity could be problematic.
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It requires unanimity and approval by more than 30 European, national and regional parliaments, possibly after national referendums.
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Now, that Democrats have voted on the resolution — with near unanimity — Republicans' procedural talking points have shifted. Rep.
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"But here too unanimity is needed and if we weren't happy we wouldn't give our assent," he said.
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On matters where it already applies, like the single market, member states tend to find fudges preserving unanimity.
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FRENCH G7 PRESIDENCY SOURCE SAYS THERE WAS UNANIMITY AMONG G7 MINISTERS ON THE NEED FOR MINIMUM CORPORATE TAXATION
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Changing from unanimity to a qualified majority would bring faster tax changes, including those on big tech companies.
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EU LEADERS FAIL TO GET UNANIMITY FOR 2050 CARBON NEUTRAL TARGET AT SUMMIT - LEAKED FINAL DRAFT TEXT SHOWS
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This rare show of unanimity left Athens no room to maneuver, and Skopje, too, did not back down.
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That kind of unanimity, the thinking goes, would make it easier for an anti-Sanders coalition to form.
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"We need to have a request coming in, we would need to decide by unanimity," the spokesman said.
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"In the circles that I move, I think there's almost unanimity of support for him," Mr. Smith said.
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Since NATO requires unanimity to accept a new member, Greece effectively kept Macedonia out of the security alliance.
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But the lack of unanimity over the exhumation shows that the country has yet to agree on the past.
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Any move by Italy to halt sanctions would break the unanimity the EU's measures need to remain in place.
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When you have unanimity, of course each and every one holds a veto, so you don't have to engage.
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But unanimity is hard to achieve, given the history of countries like Germany and the Netherlands fighting loose policy.
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That is why in the 1980s Margaret Thatcher accepted more voting by majority (not unanimity) on single-market laws.
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The measure would bring Louisiana in line with the unanimity rule that's accepted in every other state but Oregon.
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In my lifetime, I have never seen such a degree of unanimity among economists on a major policy issue.
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Since NATO requires unanimity to accept a new member, Greece has effectively kept Macedonia out of the security alliance.
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Greece was still not on board before the weekend with the decision, which requires unanimity of all EU members.
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This approach pushes most proposals away from the territory where bipartisan support — or even Republican unanimity — can be found.
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Moreover, there are numerous experts who virtually agree in unanimity that pipeline safety is superior to that of rail.
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In such societies, internal unanimity must be maintained, because everyone outside the clan is a real or potential enemy.
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It was the first time such a decision was made without unanimity since the job was created in 2009.
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"Since there was unanimity that this was in our national interest, it just surprised all of us," Kent added.
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Yet again, there was unanimity that the aid should be released — and no understanding of what motivated OMB's hold.
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The odd thing about the resulting pushback, however, was the lack of unanimity among the higher education lobbying associations.
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This post-flesh, man-machine unanimity could be seen as a precedent, suggestive of our current post-human condition.
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"There is no doubt that the unanimity among Republicans in the Judiciary Committee and the likely unanimity of Republicans in the House means he knows his party is going to stay with him no matter what he does," says Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California at Berkeley Law School.
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Tax reforms in the EU need unanimity among EU states, a factor that has blocked many overhauls in the past.
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These include requiring unanimity among a hearing panel that relies solely on "high quality" evidence, not hearsay or secondhand information.
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Later treaties folded these subjects back into normal EU rules and practice, although most policymaking still retains the unanimity requirement.
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While unanimity among the 27 is not legally required to endorse the deal now, the bloc seeks a unified stance.
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Proposals for common action, on China for example, are increasingly at odds with unanimity requirements in areas like foreign policy.
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Even though senators decided with near unanimity to overturn Obama's veto, some acknowledged doubts about the bill in the aftermath.
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"We have locked ourselves in the darkroom of unanimity," Juncker said at a speech to the Austrian parliament in Vienna.
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Though the resolution still passed with an overwhelming majority, the European abstentions represented a crack in the European Union's unanimity.
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Second, lawmakers must understand that unanimity is an impossible ideal, and the perfect cannot be the enemy of the good.
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Mr. Trump's supporters also, with near unanimity, disbelieve Dr. Blasey's account of being assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh in the 1980s.
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The left can rarely summon such intense unanimity, except perhaps on Social Security, LGBTQ marriage, and a few other issues.
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While the withdrawal agreement only requires a qualified majority not unanimity, the EU always seeks consensus on such sensitive matters.
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Under EU rules, the withdrawal treaty is adopted by qualified majority and not unanimity, so a single state cannot block it.
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"There was complete unanimity amongst the President's advisers and DOD leadership on an appropriate response to Iran's activities," the official said.
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This would reinforce the euro area's dysfunctional economic governance by strengthening yet again a forum governed by the rules of unanimity.
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If that country ignores the recommendations, the 27 other EU governments can then decide by unanimity to suspend its voting rights.
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EU leaders can decide on the next chair either by unanimity or in a majority vote, which overrides any national veto.
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The problem is that these standards are bald, all-things-considered moral judgments, about which jurors are unlikely to reach unanimity.
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"I don't think there will be unanimity in the Chamber of Deputies because opinions are a little more mixed," said Baruch.
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"I don't know if we'll have unanimity," she said, adding that the process should not create tensions that last for years.
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They suggested that where there is disagreement between Islamic scholars change would occur, but where there is unanimity it would not.
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The nuclear option of stripping a state of their voting rights in the EU requires unanimity of all other EU members.
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The bloc, which took time to respond in order to allow for unanimity from all of its members, said on Feb.
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"There was also unanimity in that, if the situation deteriorated because downside risks materialized, we would immediately react," de Guindos said.
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But there is unanimity that they have succeeded in taking the masses of their populations out of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
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However, Orban for one has already said he would veto the unanimity required for that under Article 7 of the EU treaty.
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That said, if one partner feels strongly about an investment that the others question, "we don't want to force unanimity," says Lonsdale.
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The decision requires unanimity among the 28 member states and the economic sanctions are now in place until the late January, 2017.
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Unanimity is not required and current Commission president Juncker got the job despite opposition from London and with Budapest abstaining in 2014.
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But any such punishment requires unanimity from all the other EU states, and Budapest has vowed to block its use against Warsaw.
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There is none of the unanimity witnessed in 1992, when Congress impeached Brazil's first popularly elected president, Fernando Collor, for accepting bribes.
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There is not even unanimity on the superiority of Judeo-Christian culture: some European nationalists express a longing for ancient pagan practices.
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When it comes to the litigation over the travel ban, Gupta said there's unanimity among the lower courts in rejecting the policy.
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The 28-strong EU needs unanimity to keep the sanctions in place and the bloc's unity has been increasingly tested on that.
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It takes a truly terrible proposal to elicit such eloquent unanimity from organizations that are usually cautious to the point of stodginess.
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Half the sentient beings on earth appear to have read the book, alleging with near-unanimity that they couldn't put it down.
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But if Democrats tried to demand unanimity on these very basic points from actual voters, they'd lose huge swathes of their base.
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But there is unanimity on a crucial point: None said the military had come under a large-scale attack in Inn Din.
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European leaders have also this week discussed moving to a tougher climate target but have struggled to find unanimity among member states.
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According to EU rules, the withdrawal treaty is adopted by qualified majority and not unanimity, so a single state cannot block it.
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Some strategists argued that even a lack of unanimity at the Bank of England would not alter the likelihood of a rate rise.
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These possibilities remain on the table, but are considered less likely based on the extraordinary unanimity among computer model guidance for this system.
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The diplomat said there was unanimity that the nuclear deal was being respected, but the debate had not really focused on its implementation.
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For instance, although it took 85033 years, there is now near unanimity among experts that our voting systems should indeed be paper based.
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Circuit Court Judge Kevin Moulton had instructed the jury to consider the lesser charge if they could not reach unanimity about capital murder.
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Oregon that the Sixth Amendment requires verdicts in federal cases to be unanimous, but did not apply the unanimity requirement to the states.
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Applying the unanimity requirement to the states is backed by civil rights groups, which say that minorities are disproportionately targeted by split juries.
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But even among journalists who want to convey that climate change is a crisis, there is not unanimity about how to play it.
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It was a rare moment of unanimity for Silicon Valley, which is almost by definition a globalized industry built by, and welcoming toward, immigrants.
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Some compromise may yet be found, says another Western diplomat: "There is not unanimity in the Hungarian government that this is a great idea."
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It's hard to model Brexit with accuracy, but there's surprising unanimity — even among Brexiteers — that its economic effects will be negative, and substantially so.
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Unanimity is not required to find an officer guilty, and there&aposs no specific time frame in which that decision has to be made.
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A long-neglected treaty article allows the commission to compel states to drop the unanimity rule when competition in the EU market is distorted.
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"There seems to be unanimity and bipartisan agreement that would be nice to move the reporting requirement bill forward," he said in an interview.
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Technically, Italy does not have a veto over the budget, which can be approved with a qualified majority vote, though unanimity is often sought.
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Given the lack of unanimity between the different countries, Juncker argued that foreign policy decisions should be taken by a majority vote, not consensus.
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When the electorate voted the other way, it was as if the very unanimity and certainty of the expert consensus was somehow off-putting.
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Even before Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helped open a partisan divide on Israel in American politics, where previously there had been stultifying unanimity.
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There was unanimity among the NSC, the State Department and the Pentagon to release military aid to Ukraine, as well as bipartisan congressional support.
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During the six and a half years since its passage, Republicans maintained a striking unanimity in their hatred of what they derisively called Obamacare.
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As I made my rounds of congressional offices before my confirmation hearing, I found near unanimity from Republicans and Democrats alike on NATO's future.
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The key challenges are to replace the bloated European Commission with a smaller government and to eradicate once and for all the unanimity rule.
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As with every treaty change, the ESM reform requires unanimity and so Rome can veto it, even if it agreed to it in June.
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Even in a time of polarized parties, life is simply too complicated for two political groups to have unanimity of opinion on all topics.
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"To think that we're on the verge today of passing a budget with almost unanimity is remarkable," Alderman Ed Burke said just before the vote.
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But over the past year a different type of political activism has shattered the unanimity normally seen among demonstrators, said longtime Portland resident Jon Baldivieso.
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Behind the scenes and with remarkable unanimity diplomats from Iran, the West and Gulf countries have urged Iraq's politicians to unite before the country implodes.
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The favorable attention to the human rights situation in Tibet follows the pattern established by Congress in previous China-related acts passed with near-unanimity.
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He noted that the UN Security Council, in a rare display of unanimity over North Korea, passed a resolution that tightened sanctions against Kim's regime.
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With that kind of unanimity across the board, fixing this imperfect data in the next reauthorization of Higher Education Act should be a no-brainer.
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Actions speak loudly of intentions, and even in the absence of a confession, a jury can reach unanimity on whether it was present or not.
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For Congress, what might be even more significant than the Court's unanimity is Justice Anthony Kennedy's notable concern over the Clean Water Act's broad reach.
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Even the heightened standard proved insufficient for the State Supreme Court, which urged the Legislature to demand unanimity in capital cases in a 2005 ruling.
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J Street backed this shift with political cover, campaign donations and organizational unanimity, providing a convenient panacea to American Jewish community outrage over Obama's maneuvers.
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But key congressional Republicans are refusing to let the matter die, indicating that the long history of bipartisan unanimity surrounding the refugee program is over.
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Perhaps the leading example of the moguls' unanimity on Clinton's candidacy is DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg's all-in support of her this time around.
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Last month the State Senate passed a bill to amend the state's Constitution to require jury unanimity in all felony cases with 12-person juries.
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That demands unanimity among European Union members and Turkey's backsliding on democratic standards has gone too far for European leaders to overlook it, he said.
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"There is near unanimity on the need to get a focal point in the White House to do oversight of the cyber community," Gallagher said.
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The economic curbs are now in place until the end of January 2020 and they require unanimity of all 28 EU states to be extended.
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"The reason is that you need unanimity from all heads of state to invite somebody external," the spokesman said, adding some leaders opposed the idea.
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The outcome was a diplomatic victory for the Trump administration and a moment of unanimity with Europe at a time when relations have been strained.
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For one thing, Lempel says, there's not unanimity among the staff that future persons have heavy or perhaps even equal moral weight as people today.
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Disputes between far-flung relatives often prevented the unanimity needed to sell property, and the government lacked the power to declare eminent domain and intervene.
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In those cases, which we argue reflect a high level of legal certainty as to the "correct" legal answer, unanimity and consensus are much more likely.
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The U.K. could, for instance, try to secure an extension of the negotiations from the EU, but this would require unanimity from the 27 EU members.
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And here we'll find the second hurdle: it is very unlikely that there'll be unanimity, because there are manufacturers who use it and others who don't.
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In particular, a country leaves within at most two years with or without an orderly withdrawal agreement; any extension requires unanimity among the 27 remaining countries.
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It's something that a lot of rock and roll critics and artists have noticed—for gatherings of this size, there's a vibe of unanimity and vision.
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EU states need unanimity to introduce sanctions and one source said, however, one of the names has been removed from the original proposal after Italian objections.
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But the bloc is split on whether to go ahead with any new economic sanctions, a move that would require unanimity of all 28 member states.
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The swiftness and near-unanimity with which the repeal passed suggests the regulations had remained in place not out of necessity but out of pure inertia.
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"Every decision in OPEC needs unanimity, and I don't believe in this meeting we can reach agreement," Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh told reporters on Tuesday.
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The battle within the league is unusual for an organization that prides itself on order and unanimity and oversees the most popular sport in the country.
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" He acknowledged that in responding to challenges to its core values, the European Union "is cumbersome, slow-moving and often needs unanimity to enforce its rules.
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Mr. Liu finally joined the unanimity, which afforded blessed satisfaction and release after an evening of compositional struggle, as it were, from performers and listeners alike.
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It is still what it was a half-century ago: a loose confederation of nation-states whose coordinated actions are based on the principle of unanimity.
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There is rare unanimity among both the progressives in government and the conservative opposition that America is engaged in an unacceptable shakedown of a longstanding ally.
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That's a remarkable level of unanimity from House Democratic freshmen, many of whom won tough races in GOP-leaning districts and face very tough reelection fights.
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Among my tribe — people who have a better than 50 percent chance of doing some form of walking, sometimes referred to as "incompletes" — there isn't unanimity.
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"In the end, we've got a package that found unanimity and that's a very important achievement," said a senior EU diplomat, who asked not to be named.
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The Commission had proposed to gradually move to majority voting on some minor tax issues, but crucially permitted states to decide on this structural reform by unanimity.
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Ross and Allison expected that Trump's border wall would be a contentious issue along the border, but in fact they encountered near-total unanimity: Nobody wanted it.
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Already decisions on the most contentious issues tend to stall in the Council because many of the EU's key policy decisions require unanimity among the national capitals.
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There is unanimity of opinion in the intelligence community that hackers working on behalf of the Russian government undertook a coordinated effort to destabilize our election system.
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" She said that during the ministerial meeting in New York there "was unanimity in the view that the violence must end and that there be a ceasefire.
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Adding to the December difficulty, Republicans cannot just rely on themselves for passing a spending bill even if they are able to achieve unanimity in the Senate.
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"Historically, unanimity has been a hallmark of our jury system," said Randy Susskind, the deputy director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization based in Montgomery, Ala.
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"Historically, unanimity has been a hallmark of our jury system," said Randy Susskind, the deputy director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization based in Montgomery, Ala.
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It was quite a remarkable unanimity of view after this, that something had to be done, and it would take a decisive government action to stop this.
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One sport recently had a unanimity breakthrough, when Stephen Curry was elected most valuable player of the 2015-16 N.B.A. season by a count of 131-0.
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True democracy is not about unanimity; it is about consensus and debate that considers all views but that ultimately is based on the will of a majority.
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"To illustrate the point by way of a cultural touchstone: Without the unanimity rule, the play Twelve Angry Men would have ended on page eleven," they wrote.
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Using data from investigative journalists, Harvard University law professor Thomas Frampton found evidence of significant racial disparities in the way Louisiana's non-unanimity rule functions in practice.
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Mr. Kasich's statement could prove significant as Senate Republicans try to find near unanimity on a bill to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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Democrats, who opposed tax reform with near unanimity, are expected to point to the government's surging borrowing, hammering away at that theme until the November midterm elections.
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The near-unanimity expected from both sides on Wednesday means Trump's impeachment will be much more partisan than that targeting former President Clinton in the late 90s.
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His approval among Republican voters had already fallen from near-unanimity in the wake of the 1972 election to barely half at the end of the 1973.
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Italy is among traditional opponents in the EU of sanctions against Russia, a decision that requires unanimity among all 28 member states, citing negative impact on business ties.
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Beyond a firm majority - or, preferably, unanimity - among the national leaders, any candidate to run the next European Commission must also be approved by the new European Parliament.
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"The unanimity in that room about what needs to happen was striking," one of the speakers, who wished to remain anonymous, told BuzzFeed News after a listening session.
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It was music of gorgeous unanimity, with the three performers creating such a close blend that it was often difficult to guess who was supplying any individual note.
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But if no such promise is offered, punitive sanctions such as limiting the access of U.S. companies to EU banks require unanimity from the 28 EU member states.
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In a pair of decisions in 1972, one each from Oregon and Louisiana, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not require states to insist on unanimity.
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And on Thursday, little by little, "Femenine" surely cast its spell: A community — one made not of unanimity but of communication, negotiation, advance and retreat — formed, and remained.
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That never happened, for many reasons, most notably the requirement that any such agreement garner unanimity among almost 21992 countries, while the US, among others, was inalterably opposed.
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Indeed, Griffey fell three votes short of unanimity, appearing on 99.3 percent of the 19603 ballots, exceeding the previous record of 98.84 percent, set by Tom Seaver in 1992.
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"The bottom line is, there is no question we have more unity, more unanimity of thought, more enjoyment, more camaraderie, and the progression is peaking perfectly," said Kentucky Gov.
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Yet she is being urged by some to delay, since it would set a two-year deadline for Brexit that can be extended only by unanimity among EU leaders.
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The momentum is certainly present to expand the privacy protections afforded to electronic information because Congress rarely shows the type of unanimity the House did in passing the bill.
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The Supreme Court hasn't directly addressed the issue, but there is relative unanimity among lower federal courts that code is speech, despite their sometimes inconsistent approaches to the question.
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Prior secretaries, including the two former governors — Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin and Mike Leavitt of Utah — nominated by President George W. Bush, were confirmed unanimously or with near-unanimity.
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Terracciano also said that it's important to keep the EU united, including for the benefit of the U.K., because EU unanimity is required to approve the final Brexit deal.
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"If the rule requires unanimity, you can't simply throw out people who may see the evidence differently," Alanah Odoms Hebert, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, told me.
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Formula One had originally wanted an October date but, without apparent unanimity, would have otherwise had to present the rules at a World Motor Sport Council meeting on Friday.
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The declaration that was meant to mark support for policies combating homophobia in sports, ahead of the International Day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, required unanimity to be adopted.
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It was a significant moment of unanimity at a central bank that has spent the last decade wondering when, rather than whether, inflation or financial risks would re-emerge.
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The Fed hiked rates for the third time this year, and the display of unanimity at the meeting could bolster expectations the committee will raise rates again in December.
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The big question is whether she dares to accept a decision which will not be backed by all or whether she opts for unanimity which then might underwhelm markets.
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It reflects the centuries-old understanding that jury unanimity is central to a fair justice system, that it "preserves the rights of mankind," as John Adams said in 21972.
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There is near-unanimity across the field on matters like expanding government-backed health care and campaign finance regulation — and opposition to every major component of Mr. Trump's agenda.
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Decades after the Korean War — arguably the last American war with a high degree of public unanimity — the names and feats of war heroes began to fade in memory.
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Not sure how long that will last, but his vote on blocking the Louisiana abortion restrictions from going into effect was courageous given the unanimity on the conservative side.
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Senators have a lot of leverage of their own party's presidential nominees, because in a polarized era it generally takes near unanimity to get things done in the Senate.
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And while there was unanimity around a need for diversity, there was debate over whether all members should be active Facebook users, or at least active in social media broadly.
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Unanimity is needed for the bloc to endorse the goal at Thursday's summit, but the leaders of Poland and the Czech Republic voiced their reluctance to back it on Thursday.
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The EU's economic sanctions, which target Russia's energy, defense and financial sectors, are in place until the end of July any an extension requires unanimity of all 28 EU states.
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Unanimity is needed for the bloc to endorse the goal, but the leaders of Poland and Czech Republic said they had yet to be convinced upon arrival at the summit.
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"It is curious — the unanimity with which everyone here refuses to believe in the possibility of war," Origo writes in mid-July 1939, six weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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But he managed to focus the attention of 100-plus very, very different people in one spot, and he managed to create a unanimity of intent that I've never seen.
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However, unlike its U.S. and British counterparts, the bank does not publish minutes of policy meetings, which would shed light on policy discussions and possibly show dissent or unanimity around decisions.
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"There is unanimity (within the federation) to avoid a third election and abstention is the only way," said the party's deputy leader in Andalusia, Juan Cornejo, after a meeting on Monday.
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The unanimity of the Supreme Court's decision on November 6th to clear the way for Vernon Madison's execution was not a sign that the justices agreed on answers to these questions.
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"There was never this level of unanimity," said Tim Phillips, president of the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity, which has a multi-million dollar campaign underway to push tax reform.
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Kellogg Hansen will surely argue, among other things, that Merck's bald admission of unanimity in the lower courts is a good reason for the solicitor general to oppose Supreme Court review.
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If you have something where the apparent split is 99-to-1, where you have that sort of near-unanimity, that's not because the 99 percent have figured out the truth.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One drivers, including Britain's four times world champion Lewis Hamilton, have shown rare unanimity by all signing up for their union amid concern for the sport's future direction.
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MOSCOW, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that discussions about a possible ceasefire in Syria were still ongoing and there was no unanimity on resolution of the Syrian crisis.
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The nominating process remains in its earliest stages, and there is nothing approaching unanimity among Democrats and their financial supporters about the best path to 2020, much less the best candidate.
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The near-unanimity of support for the agreement (and the flood of NDCs) left holdouts and renegades — of which international climate negotiations has always had its share — few places to hide.
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"To be sure, Justice Powell's decisive opinion in Apodaca balked at requiring the states to abide by the Sixth Amendment's unanimity requirement," his lawyers wrote in their brief for the court.
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Republican leaders are determined to keep their seven-year promise to unravel President Barack Obama's signature health care law, but the near unanimity they need on a replacement is proving elusive.
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Ueland's internal clout has grown throughout the impeachment process so far, as he is seen as having helped maintain GOP unanimity in the House while notching several unrelated legislative wins. Rep.
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Moreover, while some decisions within PESCO can be adopted by a qualified majority of participating states, unanimity remains the basic principle for decision-making in the area of security and defense.
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In fact, any concrete action against the country seems unlikely, as it would require unanimity from all the European Union's other member states, and Hungary has vowed to stand behind Poland.
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He explained that in its current form, the EU had issues over the "economy and security" that were "very difficult" to solve in a forum in which unanimity is the absolute requirement.
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" In a report headlined "Mr Blunder's isolation", the moderate Arman daily wrote: "'A rare unanimity supports Iran in the World' is the closest definition of the mood after Trump's speech last night.
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" – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain" Emad Hajjaj, a Jordanian cartoonist, merged the hair and the beard of Donald Trump and ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to imply unanimity in their hate speech and mindset.
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Earlier this week, the challengers urged the justices not to hear the government's appeals of the cases, in large part due to the unanimity of lower courts that the policy is unconstitutional.
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The clerical diplomats who drafted their bosses' joint communiqué must have been perversely thankful that on at least one issue, the faithful of the Middle East, there seemed to be complete unanimity.
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But the idea of just tweaking a Republican plan that takes away these benefits, the bottom line is there is virtual unanimity in our caucus that we're all from Missouri: Show me.
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The EU needs unanimity to decide on sanctions, some of which were slapped over Russia's annexation of Crimea from Kiev in March 2014, a move that was not recognized by any country.
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But the justices achieve unanimity much more often than they find themselves split 5-4 (or this spring, with their depleted bench, 4-20023) and occasionally those unanimous rulings are big news.
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If no agreement is struck within two years, the timetable can be extended, but only by unanimity—if that is not done, Britain would have to leave with no deal at all.
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It is also in the committee's interest to have a voice vote to provide an impression of unanimity in the committee as the bill heads to the House floor for a vote.
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His appeal, before this month's European Parliament election, is unlikely to succeed, since changing the EU treaty requires unanimity among member states, ratification in their parliaments and, in some countries, national referendums.
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"Generally speaking, since the end of the Cold War there has been unanimity in policy," said Jeffrey Davidow, a former American ambassador to Mexico and Venezuela under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
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"Despite this rare example of unanimity, civilians in Eastern Ghouta have reported that air strikes and shelling continue," Zeid told the Geneva rights forum during an urgent debate held at Britain's request.
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Republicans essentially defend the status quo, declaring it to be "great" economically and otherwise, while Democrats, with near unanimity, propose a dramatic transformation of the country led by an activist federal government.
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Given the current composition of the House, 25 Republicans would have to join the 193 Democrats to impeach Trump and of course that calculation assumes Democratic unanimity, which is far from certain.
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However, although the closing NATO summit statement required unanimity, even more revealing is the ambiguity of its language, reflecting disagreement over whether Beijing is more of an economic opportunity than fundamental challenge.
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Among the scholars cited here, there is virtual unanimity on the conviction that one way to improve the prospects of poor minorities, black and Hispanic, is to desegregate both schools and housing.
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That extended a pattern of virtual unanimity among House Democrats this year on social issues, including gun control and immigration, that earlier divided the party between its members from metropolitan and rural districts.
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Macedonia has been poised to enter both the European Union and NATO for years, but since those organizations work on the principle of unanimity for the most part, Greece has a veto option.
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Americans of all stripes with near unanimity support background checks for all potential gun buyers and strong majorities regardless of party affiliation think better mental health screening and treatment would reduce gun violence.
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"I have never seen such unanimity in the horror everyone on all sides is expressing toward the Senate process on this health care bill," wrote John Podhoretz, editor of the conservative journal Commentary.
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EU leaders usually pick the Council chair by unanimity but could do so by majority vote if necessary - a scenario diplomats said was now likely when the leaders decide the issue next week.
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Though Obama planned to tout the Iran nuclear deal as evidence of progress, the absence of key players — especially Russia — underscored the lack of unanimity still confronting global efforts to deter nuclear attacks.
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"In principle on the issue of APEC, it should respect the views of the host and should comply with the principle of agreement by unanimity," Geng told a daily news briefing, without elaborating.
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"In principle on the issue of APEC, it should respect the views of the host and should comply with the principle of agreement by unanimity," Geng told a daily news briefing, without elaborating.
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Still, there is "unanimity that this is a giant farce," said Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, a professor at the Tecnólogico de Monterrey in Mexico City and columnist for Reforma, a Mexico City newspaper.
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The lack of unanimity among Fed policymakers and the amount of time until the FOMC's next meeting makes it less likely that Powell will give a clear signal of the bank's next move.
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"Within the academic community, there is near unanimity," said Zack Cooper, a health economist at Yale University who is among a group of researchers that has looked at how dominant hospitals affect prices.
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"This is either a jury that's having trouble reaching unanimity, or it is just extremely devoted to its responsibilities and really going by the books," said Charles A. Intriago, a former federal prosecutor.
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But even acknowledging the obvious political considerations for Scott, his willingness to speak out against Trump represents a stark contrast to the near-unanimity of support for the President among Republicans in Washington.
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The European Commission has drafted rules to block foreign takeovers of strategic firms, but there is no unanimity on the proposal, which is currently being discussed by the European Parliament and Member States.
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Stripping Poland of its voting rights is highly unlikely to occur because it would require unanimity, and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised to block any such action against his Polish ally.
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While opinions vary on how long the disruptions caused by Modi's crackdown on untaxed and illicit wealth will last, there is near unanimity among economists that Asia's third-largest economy needs a helping hand.
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The only one of Jordan's five M.V.P.s that was especially close to unanimity came in 1996, when four votes went elsewhere, one each to Hakeem Olajuwon and Karl Malone and two to Anfernee Hardaway.
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He also said there was no unanimity in the European Union regarding potential sanctions being imposed on Poland, which will make it impossible for the European Council to approve the sanctions in a vote.
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But any new EU sanctions would require unanimity among all the 28 national leaders of the bloc and no new sanctions are expected swiftly as most others - including Italy, Germany and France - are opposed.
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True, the Senate voted 96 to 0 late Wednesday night to deliver a sweeping $2 trillion response to the coronavirus pandemic, a remarkable show of unanimity for the biggest government aid package in history.
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But a vast majority of the CHC's 26 members support Clinton, Cárdenas noted, and the group's leaders say they're not concerned that the lack of unanimity will send a mixed message to Latino voters.
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Pompeo told a news conference there were differences during the summit meeting over how to get Iran to change its ways, but there was unanimity, including from Europeans, that Tehran posed a global threat.
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"It would be a mistake to prejudge an outcome based upon the questions," he told POLITICO, adding that it was "a very free flowing conversation" in which health, physician and parent groups showed unanimity.
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A senior EU official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the absence of a public statement as "sad" and said it was proof the EU should replace its decision-making process, which requires unanimity.
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Thanks in good part to the need for unanimity among EU member countries, the Brussels machinery can be cumbersome or even paralysed by irreconcilable differences, as became evident during the second Gulf war in 2003.
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An exasperated Pierre Moscovici, the EU's tax commissioner, declared last month that "we are reaching the limits set by unanimity" on tax issues and that next year he will therefore propose switching to majority voting.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and the Senate Republican leadership are battling to corral enough support for a majority vote for Kavanaugh, a conservative federal appeals court judge, while Democrats are in near unanimity against him.
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The European Union's rule of unanimity means the nationalist-minded government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is unlikely to be stripped of its voting rights as its ally Poland could veto such a move.
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But imposing sanctions would require unanimity among the other member states and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made clear he would shield Warsaw from the maximum punishment — stripping it of its EU voting rights.
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It allows the justices to resolve disputes on a small scale, thereby increasing the potential for unanimity and defusing those cases in which the public and lawmakers are most likely to complain about judicial overreach.
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The WTO conference's chair, former Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra, defended the WTO's need for unanimity among its large and unruly membership, saying it was the still the best forum to deal with trade disputes.
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With unanimity on the imperative of the war, the discussion focused on three of the questions posed by Johnson in his opening comments — the merits of negotiations and bombing, and the problem of national unity.
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However, a subsequent meeting of teams and F1 stakeholders failed to find unanimity and decided to leave it in place for at least one more race rather than be rushed into a knee-jerk decision.
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"The party needs to quickly narrow its field of contenders, embrace and support a candidate and buttress the campaigns of vulnerable House members who supported impeachment while Republicans revel in their perverse unanimity," Smikle added.
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Gray Matter THE history of moral philosophy is a history of disagreement, but on one point there has been virtual unanimity: It would be absurd to suggest that we should do what we couldn't possibly do.
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In an unusual move counter to the drug industry's longstanding unanimity, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association — the industry's chief advocacy organization — criticized some "bad actors" that are raising drug prices and hurting the industry's image.
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A majority of the nine arbiters favoured removal, but unanimity was required; suspending him instead, the panel found that, on six charges relating to impropriety, integrity and impartiality, he had violated the canon of judicial ethics.
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Agreement on top roles took three summits the last time round but Tusk said he wanted the new leadership in place in July and was ready to go for a majority vote if unanimity was missing.
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It will be more contentious as there is much less unanimity among the members regarding the details of individual tax reform, having to deal with things such as child care credits and the mortgage interest deduction.
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"On the EU side, we have done all that is possible to reach an agreement ... Should there be a U.K. reasoned request for an extension, the EU27 will consider it and decide by unanimity," he added.
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For the ministers to reach unanimity, as they've agreed to do, Belgium will need to overcome determined opposition from parts of the country, including French-speaking Wallonia, where the regional parliament last week refused the deal.
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Poland's health minister and education ministry think Poland should close schools to prevent further spread of coronavirus, but there is no unanimity within the government on the issue, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily said quoting unnamed sources.
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Sources in Brussels said the EU's top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, was preparing a joint statement on behalf of the bloc's 28 member states, but said they did not think sanctions - which would require unanimity - were imminent.
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A recent survey of top financial officers found near unanimity that 2020 would see some sort of economic downturn, paired with an equally broad belief that the downturn would not fall into a full-blown recession.
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Among an otherwise fractious staff, there seems to be one point of unanimity: They want to buy the president, and themselves, time to maneuver, to reset and to recover from a rapid succession of devastating blows.
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At my house, each faction will nominate a champion to argue its position, those of us who remembered to bring IDs will vote on who won, and absent unanimity, we&aposll settle the matter by combat.
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Moreover, China has used the EU's need for unanimity in many of its decisions to pick off one or two member states in order to block statements or actions of which it disapproves—as with human rights.
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As colleagues and I detail in our book, The Puzzle of Unanimity, there's quite a lot of cases where the rules and law are clear and all of the available evidence points towards a single, legal answer.
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"Sometimes qualified majority helps you to get unanimity, because if you know that you can be voted down, your incentive to be part of the conversation, to be part of finding solution, is much stronger," she said.
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"I don't feel we will have unanimity on this issue in the coming months but the Commission still feels it would be useful that it be granted a negotiating mandate," Juncker told reporters after EU leaders met.
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"With the 737 Max we are a bit worried ... because we don't see the normal unanimity among international regulators that should be the case," Alexandre de Juniac,director general, told reporters ahead of a summit in Chicago.
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"A new level of ambition with a need to develop capabilities on a European level has been adopted by unanimity as always by the council, including the U.K. and all the other 27 member states," Mogherini said.
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In one of the four cases, the high court mustered near-unanimity to rule in favor of media giant Comcast in a discrimination lawsuit bought by owners of a network offering programming aimed at African American audiences.
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The decision by foreign ministers was a victory for the new European foreign-policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles, who has criticized the need for unanimity among all member states to make decisions on foreign and security policy.
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"Surprising things can happen," she said, discussing the challenge of achieving even an EU-wide consensus on tax reform, and noting how many pieces of tax legislation have already been passed in the European Council by unanimity.
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Andrew McCabe, Comey's deputy at the FBI and a top Trump target, also asserted that the inspector general's report cleared him of wrongdoing while reiterating the "unanimity" among top officials in favor of opening the Russia investigation.
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So a decision by the Fourth Circuit to strike down Maryland's ban could argue for the Supreme Court to eventually hear the case, since there isn't unanimity among lower courts on what is and is not constitutional.
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"The European Union should not think about applying any sort of sanctions against Poland, because that would require full unanimity and Hungary will never support any sort of sanctions against Poland," Orban told public radio in an interview.
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While desirable for smooth future cooperation, no formal unanimity is required, and Orban - as well as Britain's former prime minister David Cameron - both opposed the nomination of the current head of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, in 2014.
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With near unanimity, Republican primary voters said they were concerned about the direction of the economy in the next few years, and they overwhelmingly backed Mr. Trump, who has run on his record as a businessman and billionaire.
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The replacement of Uchtdorf generated some buzz and debate in Mormon circles Tuesday, though Matt Bowman — a Mormon and history professor at Henderson State University — noted that the church is governed through "unanimity and consensus" among top leadership.
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The nuclear option—suspending its voting rights in EU decision-making—was off the table, because it would have required unanimity among all EU members except Poland itself, and Hungary indicated that it would veto any such move.
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Beijing had company, as leaders from around the world, including Russia and NATO, condemned the test, rare unanimity at a time of pervasive discord on issues like Syria's civil war, the Shiite-Sunni Muslim divide, Ukraine and migration.
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For by so doing we should merge our identity in yours; follow and repeat and score still deeper the old worn ruts in which society, like a gramophone whose needle has stuck, is grinding out with intolerable unanimity.
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"With the 737 Max we are a bit worried ... because we don't see the normal unanimity among international regulators that should be the case," Alexandre de Juniac, IATA director general, told reporters ahead of a summit in Chicago.
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The Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act won't end trafficking any more than laws end bank robbery, but 50 attorneys general around the country have signed a letter saying that this kind of legislation would help — an astonishing unanimity.
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The board did not reach the unanimity it needed to remove him, and despite suggestions that he should step down, Gimelstob kept his seat representing the Americas region for another seven months while his criminal case was ongoing.
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Unanimity is not required though it is hard to see a candidate succeeding against the will of more than just a handful of leaders, as that would risk damaging their future cooperation and stalling the EU's decision-making.
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The EU, which often takes time to respond to international developments because of a need for unanimity among its 27 members, had said last week that it needed to study the Trump plan before it would give its verdict.
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The EU investigation, launched under Article 7 of the bloc's treaty, could in theory lead to Poland losing voting rights in the bloc, though in practice any concrete penalty is unlikely as that would require unanimity among EU governments.
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To get a number this low, you need virtual unanimity across all groups: only 6% of Republicans, 4% of people over 65, 3% of whites and 3% of independents said white supremacists were discouraged by Trump's behavior and comments.
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"Every new decision in OPEC needs unanimity... I believe that the help of the European Union helps us... the level of our oil exports will not change," Zanganeh told reporters after a meeting with EU's energy chief Miguel Arias Canete.
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With tax reform, there's an acknowledgement that "it would be better to have unanimity upfront," said Rohit Kumar, a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the European Union's executive arm, Jean-Claude Juncker, on Friday called for member states to get rid of unanimity rules and make more decisions with qualified majorities to strengthen the bloc's role in the world.
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Democrats in the House of Representatives voted last week in near-unanimity to adopt rules for public impeachment hearings; by doing so, they effectively bound their party to argue during the 2020 campaign that Donald Trump is unfit for the Presidency.
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"Party leaders believe the initials of the G.O.P. will be changed to R.I.P. if Trump is on the November 2016 ballot, and this near-unanimity of leadership opinion should be enough to defeat Trump one way or the other," they wrote.
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"Every new decision in OPEC needs unanimity... I believe that if the European Union helps us... the level of the oil exports of Iran will not change," Zanganeh told reporters after a meeting with the EU's energy chief Miguel Arias Canete.
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"We should never confuse unity with unanimity, and it is my unequivocal goal to regain the trust of voters and unify and strengthen our party to ensure we can elect Democrats from the school board to the oval office," Perez wrote.
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"With the 737 Max we are a bit worried ... because we don't see the normal unanimity among international regulators that should be the case," Alexandre de Juniac, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), told reporters last week.
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"With the 737 Max we are a bit worried ... because we don't see the normal unanimity among international regulators that should be the case," Alexandre de Juniac, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), told reporters last month.
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While the level of ambition described has thus far been maintained, the EU's decision-making by way of unanimity will mean that the speed with which any of this can happen will be determined by the slowest of the pack.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - There is a growing number of European Union leaders who support the goal of making the EU economy neutral in terms of carbon emissions by 2050, but there is no unanimity yet, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.
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And there is no consensus in the EU, where imposing any sanctions requires the unanimity of all 28 member states, on any new punitive measures, a fact made clear by the bloc's top diplomat after chairing foreign minister talks on Monday.
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While black jurors accounted for 31 percent of the votes cast in the cases at hand, he wrote in a Vanderbilt Law Review article in 2018, they cast 51 percent of the votes that didn't count under the non-unanimity rule.
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There is considerably less unanimity about the roasted corn, kernels of which you are supposed to wrap in radicchio that you've first smeared with 'nduja; I'm in the camp that thinks it would be a fine dish for another restaurant.
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It strengthened the role of the elected European Parliament and reduced governments' veto powers over legislative changes, but still left several areas such as foreign policy and tax requiring unanimity - and thus vulnerable to veto from a single member state.
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The extent of our unanimity is apparent in the Politico poll of bipartisan "insiders," the vast majority of which, regardless of party or ideology, tend to agree on who is up, who is down, who will win, who will lose.
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LOS ANGELES — The sixth and final Democratic presidential debate of 2019 began with near-unanimity about the impeachment vote in the House a day earlier — and within an hour careened into a spirited battle over transparency and money in politics.
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A senior EU official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the absence of a public statement as "sad," and said it was proof that the European Union should replace its current decision-making process, which requires unanimity, with a qualified majority system.
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WEBER OUT Any new Commission chief must not only get the backing of a clear majority - or, preferably, unanimity - of national leaders but must also be accepted by the new European Parliament, which will sit for the first time on July 2.
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WEBER'S CHANCES DROP Any new Commission chief must not only get the backing of a clear majority - or, preferably, unanimity - of national leaders but must also be accepted by the new European Parliament, which will sit for the first time on July 2.
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And sometimes the paradox is that sometimes qual-, qualified majority helps you to get unanimity because if you know that you can be voted down, your incentive to be part of the conversation, to be part of finding solution, is much stronger.
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"There is complete unanimity that the Russian action was lawless and unacceptable and deterrence must be restored and that is a collective commitment of Europe and the world to deny Russia the capacity to continue to violate basic international law norms," he said.
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The economic experts were all lined up on the side of the Remain campaign, in a near-total unanimity that was signaled when President Obama visited Britain to restate and reinforce the consensus view — a highly unusual intervention in another country's democratic politics.
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"There will be virtual unanimity that tariffs are bad, but there will also be a strong view that we have to get tough on China and that going forward we need better trade deals," one Democratic strategist told the Financial Times in March.
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A draft G20 communique seen by Reuters last week said something similar but it was not clear if it would be retained in the final version of the statement to be published on Tuesday and which has to be agreed by unanimity.
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"While they failed to reach unanimity on these racketeering acts, the jury's verdict confirmed that the murder racketeering acts were proven by a preponderance of the evidence in this case, and can be properly considered at sentencing," prosecutors wrote in the filing.
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So you know he was furious about the searing report — reflecting rare unanimity by the turf-battling intelligence agencies — implying that he did not win on his own, given that Putin ordered up a cyber-campaign designed to "denigrate" Hillary and help Trump.
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This is easier to say when it's not your $110 million on the line—honestly, I don't even know where my $110 million even are—but it is telling how near to unanimity the otherwise fractious Mets fan community was in saying it.
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Although I have zero sympathy for Trump, I am puzzled by the CNN and MSNBC pundits' apparent unanimity that Giuliani's statement that Trump reimbursed Cohen was an admission that Trump lied, when he previously said he had not known of the Daniels payoff.
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Unanimity on these issues is a mirage, but if the numbers of those who understand my intent parallel the numbers of those impacted by the outcomes, we may just be able to make some meaningful change toward understanding and compassion for all—true justice.
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Tolerating "multi-speed" vanguards of nation states on subjects where unanimity is lacking and selecting the next president for her or his skill and experience—rather than through the Spitzenkandidat process whereby the figurehead of the largest European Parliament group gets the job—would help.
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Kurz said he plans to push his proposal at an EU leaders' summit in Romania on Thursday even though there appears to be little appetite for treaty change, which would require unanimity among member states, ratification in their parliaments and, in some countries, national referendums.
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The unanimity on the United Nations Security Council in passing harsh resolutions against a belligerent Pyongyang is unlikely to be sustained after the North's overtures to limiting its nuclear capabilities by dismantling its nuclear test site and continuously advertising its willingness to go further.
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Another is that while Republicans generally agree on the need to lower taxes, there is no similar unanimity of purpose on issues like health care, immigration or welfare, especially in the increased intensity of a midterm election campaign that will be raging next year.
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" Justice Kavanaugh also asked about what he said was the ugly history of Louisiana's unanimity requirement, saying "the rule in question here is rooted in racism, you know, rooted in a desire, apparently, to diminish the voices of black jurors in the late 1890s.
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"I think what we saw at this briefing, much more so than at most other briefings I've been to, is unanimity members of Congress both Democrats and Republicans not playing politics with anything like this but really taking this matter very, very seriously," he said.
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Over several days this month, half a dozen senior Fed officials made public comments that suggested greater collective confidence and unanimity that the economy can handle tighter money than has been on display since the onset of the financial crisis nearly a decade ago.
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"There is complete unanimity – me, my office, both owners, both clubs and the MLBPA – that there is no place in our game for the behavior or any behavior like the behavior we witnessed [Friday] night," said MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred in his announcement of the suspension.
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If Democrats are to have a hope of defeating the Kavanaugh nomination, they will have to achieve unanimity in their 49-senator caucus (no easy feat) and persuade at least one of those two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine or Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to defect.
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If the Senate does away with the rules requiring unanimity and supermajorities, it would make the body much more democratic — and more responsive to the country overall — because it would reduce the barriers for the majority of the country to implement its agenda once in power.
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But this is also the reason why it's not going to be possible to get complete unanimity from this from within the EU. So Russia has already retaliated by seizing US diplomatic property, and demanding the firing of staffers who had been working in those places.
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"With the 737 Max we are a bit worried ... because we don't see the normal unanimity among international regulators that should be the case," Alexandre de Juniac, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), a global trade organization representing airlines told reporters last week.
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"The process is very fragile, discussions are under way, one can't speak about unanimity in the process of a Syrian settlement," Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a conference call when asked if Russia had proposed March 1 as a date for the beginning of a ceasefire.
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The term that ended in June "saw an uncommonly low level of unanimity" and had a higher level of decisions split 5-4 than in recent years, according to the blog, which is regarded as one of the best sources of Supreme Court analysis on the Internet.
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Stripping Poland of its EU voting rights remains unlikely because it would require unanimity among all other EU governments and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, himself seen by the EU as weakening democratic checks and balances, has promised to block any such action against his Polish ally.
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The body currently only has four members as Trump's administration blocks the selection process of new judges, accusing the 23 year-old organization of bias against the U.S. The WTO has traditionally appointed new judges based on unanimity, said Stiglitz, who is currently a Columbia University professor.
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Despite the liberal views of some candidates, such as Sanders, at the end of the day, there's a lot of unanimity on the basic idea that the U.S. needs to have a presence on the global stage, maintain alliances and project consistency in its foreign policy.
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With Senator Ted Cruz and Donald J. Trump riding a wave of voter anger to victory in the first two nominating states, the issue was one of rare unanimity in a field in which the candidates showed again in the debate Saturday night that they diverged on much else.
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If Democrats are to have a hope of defeating the Kavanaugh nomination, they will have to achieve unanimity in their Senate caucus (no easy feat, with a few Democrats facing tough re-election battles) and persuade Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine or Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to defect.
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But unanimity was needed, and last-ditch persuasion efforts in what diplomats described as "impassioned" talks that dragged on for four hours failed to ease fears among the central and eastern European states, including Estonia, that it would hurt economies like theirs dependent on nuclear power and coal.
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"That I can tell you with 100 percent certainty, with almost full unanimity across the board, Republicans and Democrats, there will be a very strong congressional response if in fact the Saudis lured him into that consulate, murdered him, cut up his body and disposed of it," he said.
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Though embarrassed by the threat of 'Article 7' being invoked against it, Poland does not seriously have to worry about losing its voting rights as this would require unanimity among other member states and it can rely on support from its ally Hungary, which is waging its own battles with Brussels.
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"All those I have spoken to emphasize that they want to ensure Austria's stability in the coming transitional period, and the unanimity on this point is a start," President Alexander Van der Bellen, who has been holding talks with all parties in parliament, told a joint news conference with Kurz.
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It is commonly assumed that when superstars fall short of unanimity for the Baseball Hall of Fame, as Ken Griffey Jr. did this year by three votes, it is because some voters, while considering them worthy of the honor, do not want them to be the first ever unanimous choice.
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"Although the large number of closely divided votes was inconsistent with the chief justice's stated preference for unanimity, the shifting membership of those in the majority and dissent was very much in keeping with the chief's admonition that there are not Bush, Obama or Trump judges and justices," he said.
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There is unanimity in agreeing that it is better for City to win the league than Liverpool — "Fans of my generation know who we don't want to win the title," Chilton said — a feeling rooted largely in decades of hatred, but tinged, ever so slightly, with the most grudging respect.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "President May Plead Fifth to Mueller, Giuliani Says" (news article, May 7): As a former federal prosecutor and then a longtime defense lawyer, I believe that there is a unanimity of lawyers mentioned in various articles that the president should not talk with the special prosecutor.
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"What I think the hearing illustrated is just how deep the political divisions are: so deep that we can't have unanimity about hate crimes and white nationalism," said Brian Levin, a national expert in hate crimes who heads the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
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This is the fear for Tories as they prepare for months of argument, their divisions highlighted by the relative unanimity of the other big parties in favour of remaining in the EU. Yet as Tim Bale, a historian of the party, points out, the split is now less stark than in the 1990s.
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The Lisbon Agreement was a simple treaty that sought to move certain voting measures from unanimity to majority vote, a common parliamentary procedure in most major legislative systems, including in the US. However, Ireland decisively rejected the Lisbon treaty on European Union reform in a referendum in 85033, plunging the project into chaos.
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A 2006 paper by a United Nations working group found unanimity in historical documents on the term, which it said was coined by the Persian king Darioush in the fifth century B.C. As far as the United States government is concerned, the body of water is the Persian Gulf, per the Board on Geographic Names.
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Ironically, the decision to end veto powers will have to be agreed unanimously by all EU states, as the commission refused on Tuesday to recommend the use of a long-neglected treaty article that would drop the unanimity rule when competition in the EU market is distorted, as in the case of digital taxation.
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Whether it was based on a hope that the court could avoid the matter altogether through unanimity at the lower courts or was just an effort to delay a ruling from the high court, the Supreme Court made a series of moves that suggests a strategy of minimizing the amount of disruption seen as coming from the high court.
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The U.S. Open, which has tried it during qualifying and junior matches, would like to introduce it for main-draw play in 2019, but with unanimity required among the Grand Slam tournaments to make such a change, Wimbledon can stop the move, although U.S. Open leaders hope Wimbledon executives eventually will at least allow the other majors to proceed.
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The UN Security Council's unanimity breakthrough is months, if not years, too late for this resolution to make a difference for the 4 million made refugees, the more than a quarter-million dead and the millions displaced inside the country, who have absolutely no place safe to turn and no place outside the nation's borders eager to offer them safety.
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There were other proposals appealing across the pro-European centre, for those who might have dismissed her as a dry, back-room politician: a right of legislative initiative for the European Parliament (that right rests in the commission), accelerated improvements on border controls, a shift away from unanimity requirements on foreign policy and a new mechanism for tackling rule-of-law infringements.
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In a speech before the European Parliament ahead of a binding approval vote on July 16th she issued a screed of mostly familiar albeit sensible policy proposals designed to secure a centrist majority, including faster progress towards carbon-emissions targets, enabling the EU to take some foreign-policy decisions without reaching unanimity, more capital-markets integration and a 50% female commission.
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Roger Cohen TEL AVIV — There is agreement on very little in the fractious Holy Land, but on one issue there is near unanimity these days: A two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more distant than ever, so unimaginable that it appears little more than an illusion sustained by lazy thinking, interest in the status quo or plain exhaustion.
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That meeting comes 72 hours after there was near-unanimity in political Washington that Rosenstein had either been fired or had resigned in the wake of a New York Times report last Friday that he had openly floated the possibility of wearing a wire to tape the President and had even discussed recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
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My hope, based on decisions in the Nixon and Clinton cases, is that the chief justice steers the Roberts court, in a nation as bitterly divided as America remains today, to decide the current cases expeditiously — even if it requires denying to hear appeals of cases already decided by courts of appeals, and to act with the unanimity and resolve the court achieved in those earlier cases.
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Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who announced his 2020 run on Thursday, will find out how hard it is to get broad Democratic support in a crowded field, said Cantor, now vice chairman and managing director at investment bank Moelis & Co. O'Rourke had "unanimity in the Democratic base when he ran against Cruz because it was somebody Democrats reviled holistically," Cantor contended, referring to how O'Rourke nearly unseated Sen.
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He wants a centralized eurozone budget and Finance Ministry as the centerpiece for a stronger Europe based on five pillars: Technology, whose giants would be taxed continent-wide; progress on climate; progress on security and defense against terrorism including a "European intelligence academy, shared information gathering and training and a pan-European prosecutors' office against terrorism"; controls on immigration; and progress on economy and commerce without some desperate search for unanimity among member states.
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The two-year limit is intended to shorten uncertainty but can be dodged: the leave notice could be held back; a unanimous decision by all 28 states can extend it (though many question how feasible that unanimity is); and one EU official has said a departure treaty negotiated within two years, and approved by a majority, might carry a delayed action clause to bring it into effect only later, once a broader new relationship was agreed.
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If one were to start with a sufficiently resourceful group of initial participants with broad agreement on keystone issues—opposition to the drug war, police state, and mass surveillance, for instance, with these issues chosen in order to establish a reasoned polity sharing common values, if not ideological unanimity—one could expect such a system to quickly expand into a vast and formidable new force in world affairs, capable of advancing reform and confronting criminalized institutions across the globe.
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Utopianism was the order of the day, and with uncanny unanimity, Western leaders moved ahead with two great imperialist projects that were supposed to bring peace and prosperity to the earth: An "ever closer union" of the nations of Europe in which they would forfeit much of their former independence; and an American-sponsored "rules-based international order," under which nations that do not abide by the decisions of international bodies would be coerced into doing so, principally by US armed force -- a globalist policy that we got to see carried out in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
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