nonunanimous
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- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈjunɪməs/
- The decision was controversial because it resulted from a nonunanimous vote among the committee members.
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Issue: Whether the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, allows a criminal conviction based on a nonunanimous jury verdict.
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Of course, states with nonunanimous rules can also generate unanimous outcomes.
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I have seen conflicting accounts of whether any other states have ever adopted nonunanimous elector allocation methods, but if so, those methods were subsequently rescinded.
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In sum, the obvious benefit of unanimity explains why so few states have ever chosen the congressional district or any other nonunanimous method for the allocation of their electoral votes.
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In the case of a nonunanimous jury, the judge may declare a mistrial if there is not sufficient agreement.
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The new policy took effect even though the board's decision was nonunanimous, with several members expressing their disagreements.
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Etymology
The word nonunanimous combines the prefix non- meaning 'not' with unanimous, which originally meant 'of one mind' or 'everyone agrees'. So nonunanimous means 'not everyone agrees'.