In response, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon unilaterally suspended the convertibility of dollars into gold, effectively ending the gold standard.

In 1992, Russia unilaterally suspended its flights of strategic aviation in remote regions.

With the Salvadoran peace talks approaching their expected successful conclusion, the guerrilla front announced today that it was unilaterally suspending "offensive actions" after nearly a dozen years of civil war.

He would unilaterally suspend testing of nuclear weapons and deployment of new weapons and "challenge the Soviets to do the same."

Mrs. Whitman said she could not unilaterally suspend the hunt because the Fish and Game Council was an independent agency empowered to write the state's hunting rules.

Even in tough fiscal times, no government official should unilaterally suspend a rule of law.

In this spirit, the PM unilaterally suspended the competition laws to facilitate a bad deal that was temporarily helpful to him politically.

Mr. Mays unilaterally suspended those rights after five visits when he decided that the visits were upsetting his daughter.

On May 8, 1980, Anwar El Sadat unilaterally suspended the negotiations.

On March 20, 2000, SG unilaterally suspended all pending requests to withdraw funds and sharply reduced participants' account balances in all companies except the privileged company.