unilaterally

unilateral | American Dictionary

unilateral
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌjun·əlˈæt̬·ər·əl/
done independently by one group or country:
a unilateral action

unilaterally

adverbus/ˌjun·əlˈæt̬·ər·ə·li/
The law is part of a disturbing trend to act unilaterally without regard to the legitimate interests of others.

unilateral | Business English

unilateral
adjective
uk /ˌjuːnɪˈlætərəl/us
done by only one of the groups, organizations, or countries involved in an activity or process:
More than 70 developing countries have undertaken unilateral trade liberalization initiatives during the last 20 years.
Opponents of the government have criticized the president's unilateral approach and believe broader international alliances are required.
unilateral actions/decisions/concessions

unilaterally

adverb
decisions taken unilaterally

Examples of unilateral

unilateral
A unilateral, centralised and personalised approach to decision-making was necessary to avert economic collapse and initiate structural adjustment.
Their spatial distribution is defined by unilateral light gradients and their photosynthetic and photo-protective strategies.
Realists emphasize new or continuing security concerns, and prescribe unilateral action and the deployment of traditional power politics in the pursuit of state interests.
At one extreme is the well-publicized option of unilateral euroization15, heavily criticized on legal grounds.
Nonspatial conditional learning impaired in patients with unilateral frontal but not unilateral temporal lobe excisions.
Do you allow automatic unilateral shut-off of such products?
Contracts and agreements overlap but do not coincide; for example, unilateral contracts and deeds made by one person are not agreements in any normal sense.
However, several studies have shown that the prognosis of patients with bilateral breast cancer seems similar to unilateral disease.
However, unilateral lesions may have an increased rate of postnatal pathology compared to their bilateral counterparts.
Patients with vestibular loss require several quick catch-up saccades to maintain fixation (to one side with unilateral lesions and to both sides with bilateral lesions).
The anterior thalamic head-direction signal is abolished by bilateral but not unilateral lesions of the lateral mammillary nucleus.
Unilateral spatial neglect is a disorder that has, for many years, intrigued and frustrated researchers and clinicians working in the area of stroke rehabilitation.
Swallowing after unilateral stroke of the cerebral cortex: preliminary experience.
Is there an optimal age for recovery from unilateral motor cortex lesions?
As a group, they emphasize mutual dependence between actors, and prefer decisions reached through persuasion rather than imposition or unilateral action.
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