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Sentence count:221+4Posted:2016-11-07Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: denyrefuseSimilar words: have tohave to do withveteraninveterategive thanksactive transportlet offget outMeaning: ['vɪːtəʊ]  n. 1. a vote that blocks a decision 2. the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature). v. 1. vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent 2. command against. 
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121. Wilson had until midnight Monday to sign or veto everything sent to him by the Legislature last session.
122. It is also likely that a veto would produce severe strains in the relationship between Edinburgh and London.
123. For its part, the government has shelved its demands for entrenched veto rights for minorities and for indefinite power-sharing with whites.
124. Successful operation is obviously the way to achieve that not by giving employees a veto as proposed in amendment No. 3.
125. Nevertheless, when moral considerations made a fast imperative(Sentencedict.com ), his body had no veto.
126. The line-item veto authority is a monument to a myth about the makeup of the budget.
127. And while that makes him a lame duck, he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.
128. Seventy Democrats joined 215 Republicans to override the veto; 15 Republicans and 121 Democrats voted to uphold the veto.
129. The President also undertook not to veto decisions taken by the Cabinet.
130. It was not just the veto which caused a crisis of confidence: every member had the right to blackball an applicant.
131. However, the measure faces a certain presidential veto if it clears the Senate.
132. The nature of the decision implemented by the one-House veto in these cases further manifests its legislative character.
133. Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress.
134. The veto was the 31st of the Bush presidency, all of which had been upheld.
135. Commercial considerations appear to be partly behind its threat to veto the proposal.
136. A further concession to Quebec was the provision that any single province could veto future changes to federal institutions.
137. The House vote fell well short of the 291 required to override a veto.
138. President Clinton had threatened a veto of the immigration bill if it included the Gallegly amendment.
139. If passed it would present Bush with the politically undesirable prospect of having to veto the measure during the election campaign.
140. On Sept. 24 the Senate voted by 68 votes to 31 to override the veto.
141. And Dole backed a constitutional amendment proposed by Reagan to create a line-item budget veto for presidents.
142. One bill actually passed Congress in 1965[sentencedict.com], but was watered down under threat of a Lyndon Johnson veto.
143. She argued that the veto power robbed Valley voters of the right to decide their fate.
144. This would effectively give the white population a veto on all constitutional changes.
145. The Senate gave President Clinton a victory Thursday when lawmakers sustained his veto of a bill banning certain late-term abortions.
146. It reeks of just another favor to the rich, and the president has vowed to veto it.
147. The candidates of the main parties are selected locally, though the national party in each case retains some veto power.
148. Bush threatened to veto the compromise bill which seemed likely to emerge from these two versions of the unemployment legislation.
149. It does not, however, equate with a national right of veto.
150. He postponed a signing ceremony for the line-item veto measure until next week.
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