Before Dr. Venter's announcement of his unilateral effort, academic scientists had tended to rebuff suggestions for quick solutions, favoring high quality and accuracy over speed.

Clinton has pressed for a multilateral lifting of the embargo but has maintained that a unilateral effort by Washington could undermine other UN actions around the world.

His fitful unilateral efforts at making contact with a deaf world.

We oppose unilateral efforts on either side to try to alter the current set of circumstances.

Others have asked the U.N. to take the lead in negotiations where their own unilateral efforts would not be sufficient or accepted as legitimate.

Mr. Spratt's unilateral effort to rewrite a complex federal-state compact is not just another bump on the road to restoration.

Those nations will go along, provided they are seen as contributing to a broad international effort to disarm Iraq and not just to a unilateral American effort.

Still, any unilateral effort by the United States to cordon off North Korea by sea and air could founder along the country's lengthy land border with China.

It said that "Israel will be unable - for long - to persist in a unilateral effort" to achieve a cease-fire.

Soldier strength dropped to 2,500 in 1970 and civilian employment went down 70 percent in a unilateral cost-reduction effort.