But the project reflected surprising consensus (though hardly unanimity) on a some big issues.
U.S. commanders say with near unanimity that corruption drives Afghans into the arms of the Taliban.
The KPMG study is additionally telling because the results often show near unanimity.
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Enlargement will make it more and more difficult for the Union to decide anything by unanimity.
Since freedom of speech in Laos is limited, the unanimity of the local participants was unsurprising.
It would expand the policy areas subject to qualified majority voting (QMV), rather than unanimity.
Second, the UK wanted the area of "maximum harmonisation" to become subject to unanimity.
Bail-outs require unanimity (Finland also needs parliamentary approval to participate), giving the country a veto.
The reasons why Brussels may have adopted unanimity voting are pretty obvious, if not credible.
By definition, this reduces the need for unanimity and so reduces the value of national vetoes.
Devout federalists have their answer: unanimity is the enemy of progress in an EU of 27 countries.
If Labour learned nothing else in the run-up to 1997, it is that credibility depends on disciplined unanimity.
Two years ago, the market was saying with near unanimity that Greece was simply too small to fail.
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Advocates for privacy said that despite the differences, the court's unanimity on the outcome sent a strong message.
Federal cases require unanimity for the plaintiff, but Gordon says Merck should have been able to win this case.
But again, Jake, there's not unanimity in one party on either way forward.
The argument goes that more majority voting is needed, because few decisions requiring unanimity will survive 27 potential vetoes.
And that unanimity of opinion does not exist in relation to this situation.
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Part of what makes this production so fine is the unanimity with which Ms. Tyson's colleagues support her magnificent performance.
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In 2006, President George W. Bush signed a 25-year reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act that Congress passed with near-unanimity.
In the end, Chief Justice Earl Warren, an Eisenhower appointee, used skill and luck to shepherd the justices into unanimity.
On the story behind the former headline there's been utter unanimity in the response: an overwhelming sadness and sense of loss.
And we should let politics decide, without being ambushed by a chimera of political prescriptiveness dressed up as (false) scientific unanimity.
Until yesterday that is, when cracks appeared in what had been a previously monolithic block of unanimity within the central bank.
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There was unanimity in the decision to keep the bank's main interest rate unchanged at the record low of 0.5 percent.
Mr Blair had been pressing for unanimity to trigger such flexibility, but he conceded majority voting subject to the same emergency brake.
"From our side of the table, there was absolute unanimity on federalization, and we're going to write the law, " Rockefeller told CNN.
They point to Greece's blocking of Union recognition for Macedonia as an example of the mess the need for unanimity can make.
But the Republican establishment, if you look, there's no unanimity about him.
The shift from unanimity to majority voting is a big political change.
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