How To Use Unanimity In A Sentence
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In the technical literature, virtual unanimity reigns: most of the variation among individual IQs is due to variation in genes.
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This unanimity encouraged local leaders to abstain from political initiatives and to concentrate on local and day-to-day issues.
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There is virtual unanimity of preference for oral teaching which might seem to overbear the possibility of opposition.
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Similarly radicals overstate the degree of unanimity among the medical profession, which is in fact riven with dissension and competing ideologies.
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Our American unity does not depend upon unanimity.
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The political stalemate was broken; there was near unanimity that the USA must rearm immediately.
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Consensus cano mean unanimity but it would be silly to interpret the article title in that way since it says that it lists people who disagree with the consensus.
Road Map #3 « Climate Audit
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The two-year timescale can only be extended by unanimity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's also important to remember, in the context of the contest, that unanimity is not the same thing as unity.
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The idea of coalition was put to the membership and it was passed with near unanimity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sameness of the portraits underlines the tetrarchs' equality, while their embrace stresses unanimity and solidarity.
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Many physicians and historians have written on this subject, and with singular unanimity have endorsed music as a curative agent for tarantism.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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The predominance of unanimity encourages least-common-denominator agreements.
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They are on equal terms artistically, responding to one another with spontaneity and unanimity in the interpretation of nuances that give their playing a sense that they are inside the music.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Unanimity on all perplexing problems created by multilateral treaties is unachievable.
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Third, Rawls' conception of the person does not lead to unanimity of moral views.
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We won't all agree, but we need to achieve a degree of unanimity.
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It also emerged that there is no unanimity amongst traders over the issue of pedestrianising the main street.
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In reality, as everybody knows nowadays, these are biconcave disks, but owing to their peculiar figure it is easily possible to misinterpret the appearances they present when seen through a poor lens, and though Dr. Thomas Young and various other observers had come very near the truth regarding them, unanimity of opinion was possible only after the verdict of the perfected microscope was given.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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Acting unanimously, the member States could have informally amended the treaty provisions, but without such unanimity they each remained bound.
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This third relation may be call finality; [Footnote: The explanation of this is obscure; there is no unanimity among the specialists in musical theory.] it belongs among relations we have called evolutionary.
The Principles of Aesthetics
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While the EPA argues that its use of the restraining order is legitimate under the law, there is no unanimity on that point in legal circles.
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Under the original order, unanimity among the judges was not required, even to impose the death penalty.
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In the present case, unanimity was achieved at the price of watering down the provisions that require other countries to search North Korean vessels.
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In the intervals of pandemonium, each chattered, cut up, hooted, screeched, and danced, himself sufficient unto himself, filled with his own ideas and volitions to the exclusion of all others, a veritable centre of the universe, divorced for the time being from any unanimity with the other universe-centres leaping and yelling around him.
CHAPTER XIV
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These discussions have led to a remarkable unanimity.
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Coordinators' unanimity about attitude change in their schools is significant for two reasons.
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However, the reason for rejecting the unanimity principle was itself very Russian; it was argued that one juryman should not be allowed to thwart the will of eleven others.
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We won't all agree, but we need to achieve a degree of unanimity.
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Impressed with this convergency of testimony from so many different quarters, they will be utterly at a loss to account for the unanimity of these early witnesses -- all sharing in the same delusion, all ignorant that a false Mark has been silently substituted for the true Mark during their own lifetime, and consequently assuming as an indisputable fact that the false Mark was received by the Church from the beginning.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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There is unanimity among advertisers and producers that advertising of this kind needs to be as unobtrusive as possible.
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It requires unanimity of all European members.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no unanimity of opinion among the medical profession on this subject.
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The tone was firm and sweet, and fiendish semiquaver flourishes attacked with unanimity and boldness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the party lost its government majority in elections in September and its chairman at the beginning of November, the conference was characterised by demonstrative unanimity, instead of any critical or self-critical debate.
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The unanimity expressed by the First Minister and the main opposition party leader should be enough to reassure any reasonable parent.
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Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box.
Courts and Criminals
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The result is a spellbinding unanimity that sounds, to the outsider, almost telepathic.
Times, Sunday Times
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All decisions would require unanimity.
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It would require unanimity in Europe which is not going to be forthcoming.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no unanimity of opinion among the medical profession on this subject.
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Committees were appointed by the town, and in a rare display of unanimity and expeditiousness, they agreed on the location, dimensions, and cost of a more splendid meetinghouse.
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There is British insistence on unanimity for tax harmonization, partly on grounds of sovereignty.
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The Victorian asylum movement was successful largely because of a unanimity of views on the subject by most men of influence.
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Hatter, wherewith he mitigated the miseries of Jefferson during the debate; and to his familiar bonmot in reply to Harrison's appeal for unanimity: "Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
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Nor was it at all certain, in any one instance, where this exemplary chastisement overtook him, that the apparent unanimity of the actors went further than the _practical_ conclusion of "abating" the imperial nuisance, or that their indignation had settled upon the same offences.
The Caesars
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At this I was very much surprised, not having been used at any time of my life to the unanimous devotion of an entire population, but having always thought of the Faith as something fighting odds, and having seen unanimity only in places where some sham religion or other glozed over our tragedies and excused our sins.
The Path to Rome
