unanimous consent

collocation in English

meaningsofunanimousandconsent

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unanimous
adjective
uk
/juːˈnæn.ɪ.məs/us
/juːˈnæn.ə.məs/
If a group of people are unanimous, they all agree about one particular matter or vote the same way, and if a decision or judgment is unanimous, it is formed or supported by everyone in ...
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consent
noun
uk
/kənˈsent/us
/kənˈsent/
permission ...
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To understand this, consider a k-actor committee where decision-making requiresunanimousconsent.
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The difficulty is that in bioethics there is nounanimousconsentregarding most if any bioethical issues.
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The default common law rule requiredunanimousconsentof shareholders, so this silence amounted to a strict policy.
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These licence decisions, and decisions to modify the lists of controlled items or proscribed countries, requiredunanimousconsent.
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This structure is bound to cause difficulties in compacts in which decision-making requiresunanimousconsentamong commissioners.
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The distinctive contractualist approach is to design a test that certifies principles on the basis that they would secure a kind ofunanimousconsentof people in a hypothetical situation.
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Theunanimousconsentto the five-day week was occasioned less by the absolute quantum of free time thus gained than by the new possibilities offered by the 'long weekend'.
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Mill is clear that voluntary associations should be empowered to create and exercise claim-rights to co-ordinate their own affairs byunanimousconsent.
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In effect this meansunanimousconsentof representatives—and this institution is missing.
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There may be a difference in detail, but the hour of meal times was settled byunanimousconsent.
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Its sphere of responsibility cannot be extended except with theunanimousconsentof its members.
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After extensive discussion, the clauses were radically revised so that the corporation could act only if it had theunanimousconsentof secured creditors.
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So far as we enter into new policies or new obligations, it is by theunanimousconsentof the member states.
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It may be that it has arisen in securingunanimousconsent.
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It is not necessary for agreement on all questions to be conditional onunanimousconsent.
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In other cases, they can be changed only byunanimousconsent, which means, in effect, that they can be without limit.
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Will he assure us that article 100 of the treaty will still requireunanimousconsent?
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Both these things have to be done byunanimousconsent.
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These are no more than proposals, and would require new legislation which could be adopted only with theunanimousconsentof all member states.
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