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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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181. In 1919, Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Wilson's veto.
182. That is because agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers.
183. The administration has signaled it would veto the Smith bill. It should be on guard for attempts to sneak parts of it into the debt limit talks.
184. Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) accused the United States used its veto "over."
185. When the president refused to do so, Whig Party leaders urged the cabinet to resign. This would show that the president, alone,(sentencedict.com) was responsible for the veto of the bills.
186. The President threatened to use his veto over the bill.
187. Obama also noted that a 6-month debt cap extension won't solve the problem and threatened to veto any of the current temporary debt limit proposals.
188. He used his veto power liberally, and often made policy without working with Congress.
189. It reserved the entire dry season flow of the Nile for Egyptand allowed Cairo to veto any water development project in the Nilebasin .
190. The president threatened to veto the entire $664 billion defense appropriations bill if there were F-22s in it.
191. The Senate possesses an effective veto over those choices,(sentencedict.com) and the Constitution assigns to Congress the power to fix the size of the Supreme Court and to restrict the court's appellate jurisdiction.
192. Then there are a lot of defects in the exercise of the veto power.
193. The solution they favored was increased reliance on an old device: the so - called " legislative veto. ".
194. My political belief, my ideals, compel me to veto this bill.
195. George Washington was the first president in the history of America to use his veto power.
196. The state legislature promptly overrode his veto, and the rest is license-plate history.
197. Most governors have veto power over state legislation, analogous to the veto power of the President.
198. But Fidel is still likely to exercise a veto power behind the scenes.
199. Republicans are already drawing up proposals to protect defence from the sequester, but Mr Obama says that he would veto any such attempt.
200. If a pocket veto really means sticking the bill in your pocket, he'll nose it out of there like a subway thief.
201. Pork Invaders allows you to fire bullets that say "veto" at slow-moving flying pigs and barrels.
202. China is a permanent member of the Security Council, with veto power.
203. The protection mechanisms of national security exception are including damage testing, the public interest test, veto system of ministers, mechanism of the whether existence or not etc.
204. In Vermont, the state legislature successfully overrode the governor's promised veto.
205. It also gives the US government veto power over major decisions at the company.
206. The demise of the legislative veto stimulated interest in other approaches to regulatory reform.
207. The president vetoed the bill, but congress override his veto.
208. The International Criminal Court should deny veto rights to the US government.
209. The President attempted to use the veto power to the highest degree, but Congress wanted to limit it.
210. At home, he has the veto pen, control of the Senate and the bully pulpit.
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