veto 的 2 个定义
plural ve·toes.Also called veto power .
- the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- the exercise of this right.
- Also called veto message. a document exercising such right and setting forth the reasons for such action.
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ve·toed, ve·to·ing.
- to reject by exercising a veto.
- to prohibit emphatically.
veto 近义词
refusal of permission
refuse permission
更多veto例句
- They were looking for “electorally generated veto points” — that is to say, elected bodies that could block change.
- It took about a year, but they changed that golden-share, that veto power over major transactions into what they called the Public Interest Foundation.
- A state law passed just before Ikrata’s arrival gave the city of San Diego an effective veto at SANDAG.
- If reformers hope to succeed in curbing overpolicing, they will first have to overcome the challenge of underpolicing, which has often allowed officers to exercise an effective veto on reform.
- San Diego needs support from just two other cities to exercise a veto.
- Immediately, there was a national groundswell of voices calling for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to veto the bill.
- By giving an artistic veto to a madman, we submit to the mindset of a slave.
- In his veto message, Christie also chided Democratic lawmakers for “using their lawmaking authority to play politics.”
- With the second veto on Friday, however, all bets seemed to be off.
- In fact, because the House never voted, he never got the chance to sign or veto anything.
- The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.
- It made me furious, too, to see my ambition nipped with the frost of a possible veto from Miss Smawl.
- This protection was exercised mainly through the use of the veto power given to the tribunes.
- And this repeal is demanded because a single State interposes her veto, and threatens resistance!
- To make it possible for the tribunes to give such protection, the veto had been granted to them.