unanimityin a sentence
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"We have nothing, my dear sir, to depend upon, but the protection of a kind Providence and unanimity among ourselves," he wrote to John Adams from his Broadway headquarters.† (source)
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As stubborn as the granite of their mountains, they, almost in unanimity, refuse to yield.† (source)
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But the decision was correct, and the unanimity of the judges had its justification in the excellence of the sonnet.† (source)
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They ended in unanimity or not at all.† (source)
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"You see," the attorney Giuliani said, "not only is there no comfort in unanimity, but they cannot even achieve it."† (source)
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The test of intellectual excellence, however, had been reduced by tradition and unvoiced unanimity to a single area of study: Talmud.† (source)
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With what seemed like unusual unanimity, the peasants and the people in the slums had embraced something called dechoukaj, the "uprooting" of every visible symbol of the Duvaliers, which included the public persecution and sometimes the killing of former tontons macoutes, mostly small fry, of course.† (source)
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a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones;† (source)unanimities = things upon which everyone agreesstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unanimities means not and reverses the meaning of animities. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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We most earnestly recommend to you calmness and unanimity in this great and weighty affair, that the union may be brought to a happy conclusion, being the only effectual way to secure our present and future happiness, and disappoint the designs of our and your enemies, who will ...use their utmost endeavors to prevent or delay this union.† (source)
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George Norris was saddened by the near unanimity with which "my own people condemned me ...and asserted that I was misrepresenting my state."† (source)
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"No, they shall be lashed," said Unanimity 7-3304, "till there is nothing left under the lashes."† (source)
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Over us all broods a splendid unanimity.† (source)
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They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours-almost indefinitely.† (source)
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There was no more unanimity in the North on waging war to keep the Union than there had been in the South on seceding to destroy it.† (source)
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Fortunately little is left of me that can die physically, and as for the rest, all our religions display a pleasant unanimity of optimism.† (source)
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As they gathered in concentric circles from all sides, it was as if they were thronging after him—hesitant, without a will of their own, and yet in dazed unanimity, like a swarm of rats behind the Pied Piper.† (source)
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