vetoed
被否决,被否决的,被否决了,否决了
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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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If Democrats win a supermajority in the state Senate, they will have total veto power over the state’s projected 26 congressional districts.
When even that wasn’t enough to get support, she pushed forward anyway, yet lacked the votes to overcome a mayoral veto.
This specter was an unmistakable motivating factor for so-called “court-packing” by conservatives to cement a kind of veto power against policy gains for LGBTQ people and other long-ignored communities.
I had that conversation with him, and it was pretty clear … so I knew that I needed to have six Council members to override that veto.
Even in the absence of the filibuster, the American political system is thick with veto points and clashing institutions.
I had chosen a seat by the window, but Poitras vetoed the location.
The New Jersey governor vetoed a ban on a rarely used cruel practice for pregnant pigs.
President Obama has vetoed only three bills, an historic low.
President G.W. Bush vetoed 12, Bill Clinton 27, George H.W, Bush 44, Ronald Reagan 78.
Consider how First Lady Michelle Obama vetoed pantyhose and made bare legs OK for the rest of us.
“Flood”—Cleveland vetoed an unprecedented number of bills during his term.
In order to protect the slave trade benefits for England, the Governor vetoed this proposal.