veto
否决权,否决票,否决,反对票
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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.
- : a nonconcurring vote by which one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council can overrule the actions or decisions of the meeting on matters other than procedural.
- : an emphatic prohibition of any sort.
- : pocket veto.
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ve·toed, ve·to·ing.
- : to reject by exercising a veto.
- : to prohibit emphatically.
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Examples
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.