How to Use unilateralism in a Sentence

unilateralism

noun

• This looks like a short-term win for Mr. Trump’s trade unilateralism.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
• Through its new unilateralism, the U.S. is getting a bigger say in how the world’s economic pie gets divvied up.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2020
• Her supporters would laud the court for having restrained a woman who, with blithe unilateralism, had attempted to put an ocean between a small boy and one of his mothers.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• For all its country-specific fervor, the Olympics is a proudly multilateral event taking place this year in a world that, from Brexit to Trump policies, is awash in a burst of unilateralism.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
• Nyabola thinks that the long-term impact of Trump's unilateralism carries two significant risks.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 30 Oct. 2020
• Only new legislation can cure presidential unilateralism and that is not in the offing.
  — WSJ, 11 Nov. 2021
• Instead of making Iran look like a diplomacy-loving victim of American unilateralism, Tehran would have to defend its odious Syria policy.
  — Mark Dubowitz and Richard Goldberg, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
• This slide into unilateralism and protectionism is endangering the global economy and undermining the WTO’s ability to enforce a common set of rules.
  — Susana Malcorra, Time, 28 June 2019
• Meaningful action to protect human rights is rare, and the collectivist approach, which disdains unilateralism, keeps forceful sovereign responses at bay.
  — Aaron Rhodes, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2020
• Trump’s tendency toward America First unilateralism was bracing to a man schooled in multilateral Cold War alliance-making.
  — Jeremy Carl, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
• Trump’s instinctive unilateralism, his belief that international institutions cage the U.S. rather than project its power, forced other nations to change their calculations about dealing with Washington.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2020
• French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to be a key voice joining secretary-general Guterres in speaking out against unilateralism and populism, and supporting multilateralism as key to promoting peace.
  — Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
• Based on the band’s ensuing legal battles, unilateralism generally doesn’t promote unit cohesion.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2020
• Multilateralism is far preferable to unilateralism, but narrow multilateralism is far more promising than universal or broad forms of collective action that rarely succeed; witness, for example, the course of climate-change diplomacy and trade.
  — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024