veto power / ˈvi toʊ /

否决权否定权反对权

veto power2 个定义

n. 名词 noun

plural ve·toes.Also called veto power .

  1. 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.
  2. the exercise of this right.
  3. Also called veto message. a document exercising such right and setting forth the reasons for such action.
v. 有主动词 verb

ve·toed, ve·to·ing.

  1. to reject by exercising a veto.
  2. to prohibit emphatically.

veto power 近义词

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更多veto power例句

  1. From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.
  2. And the fact that satire unnerves the intolerant is evidence of its positive power.
  3. Would the Democrats rescind those rights if they were to return to power?
  4. Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.
  5. What it endangers is a narrow conception of Russian power, understood through the eyes of its dictatorial leader.
  6. For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
  7. Wharton smiled at this littleness in so great a man, but determined that he should feel the power he despised.
  8. He brings out all their power, brilliancy and careering wildness, and makes the greatest sensation of them.
  9. She knew that she alone of all human beings was gifted with the power to understand and fully sympathize with him.
  10. We live in an age that is at best about a century and a half old—the age of machinery and power.