1.   And then, by unanimous consent, the Senate put aside the national defense, at least for a day.

2.   As a practical matter, Senate rules are almost never changed except by unanimous consent.

3.   Because the bill had come to the House floor under unanimous consent, a single vote was enough to derail it.

4.   Both the Hatch and the Kennedy-Smith amendments were identical to two competing measures that were approved by the Senate last year by unanimous consent.

5.   A rough Republican wit remarked the other day that Mr. Hayes came in by a majority of one and goes out by unanimous consent.

6.   A water projects bill containing the Everglades plan emerged from a House-Senate conference committee and was approved by unanimous consent in the Senate late Tuesday afternoon.

7.   But Clinton and other White House officials said they would be willing to attack without unanimous UN consent.

8.   But it takes unanimous consent to do almost anything in the Senate, and the order of amendments is routinely shuffled in moments of collegiality.

9.   But it seems unlikely that the Senate will provide the unanimous consent necessary to change the vote sequence it has set up.

10.   But the Democrats, as they had threatened, refused to give him the unanimous consent.