0 in a way that involves doing or deciding something without first asking or agreeing with another person, group, or country:
He unilaterally cancelled the project without any previous discussion with the board.
The region is seeking to unilaterally declare independence.
The rebels continue to attack from their side of the unilaterally determined border.
Therefore, a president who cannot unilaterally fire civil servants needs alternative mechanisms to constrain their behaviour.
The state conferred upon a privileged few the right to unilaterally set prices, regulate output and exclude competitors from the market.
The fact that the analysis of many of the interviews remained cursory, and was conducted unilaterally rather than in cross-cultural collaboration, does show through, however.
In addition, states could threaten to withdraw or unilaterally decontrol items to prompt a substantive change.
Furthermore, some instruments are framed so that government unilaterally acts on target groups, while others build a bilateral or multilateral feature directly into the mechanism.
