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  • Doctor Nolan said my college would take me back for the second semester, on her recommendation and Philomena Guinea's scholarship, but as the doctors vetoed my living with my mother in the interim, I was staying on at the asylum until the winter term began.†   (source)
  • She'd vetoed three of Sophia's outfits, had lent her a pair of gold, dangly earrings and a necklace that matched, and as she skipped toward Sophia, she didn't bother to hide her excitement.†   (source)
  • If she vetoed Percy's orders … well, he didn't know what would happen.†   (source)
  • But Ida had vetoed this.†   (source)
  • They considered it dangerous and vetoed my meeting.†   (source)
  • Our official escort Mundin vetoes both ideas.†   (source)
  • After some wrangling, J. T. promised Venkatesh unfettered access to the gang's operations as long as J. T. retained veto power over any information that, if published, might prove harmful.†   (source)
  • Milo vetoed the idea brusquely.†   (source)
  • But the General vetoed that.†   (source)
  • By the quick look that passed among the three of them, I could see that this option had been discussed, and likely vetoed by Liz.†   (source)
  • I had tried to get him a spot in the St. Catherine's cemetery, but the committee in charge had vetoed it—they did not want the grave of a murderer resting beside their loved ones.†   (source)
  • Executive power would include the veto and the appointment of all judges and justices, as well as militia officers, thus making the executive the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.†   (source)
  • Gates had vetoed it, saying Lucy was "obsessed with sleaze."†   (source)
  • He vetoed it, said it was inflammatory.†   (source)
  • It didn't help that he had been in the White House for nearly three years and still had yet to cast a single veto.†   (source)
  • The emperor can veto legislation.†   (source)
  • If we can go on looking strong—when F.N. says we're licked—then eventually some veto power is going to crack.†   (source)
  • My mother had vetoed "We are going down the valley one by one."†   (source)
  • And so, at the request of your beloved Speaker and the Senator from Montana, the Majority Leader, the Senator from Illinois, the Minority Leader, Mr. McCullock and other members of both parties, I came here tonight, not as President Roosevelt came down one time in person to veto a bonus bill; not as President Truman came down one time to urge passage of a railroad bill, but I came down here to ask you to share this task with me.†   (source)
  • And for the first time in our nation's history, important public measures were passed over a President's veto and became law without his support.†   (source)
  • Michael liked the first city they passed, but this was vetoed because everyone doubted quick first judgments.†   (source)
  • His editor, however, had vetoed publishing it.†   (source)
  • The president can use the veto to block legislative encroachments on the executive.†   (source)
  • "In this family," Mum went on, "we have always felt that our husbands should be allowed a veto.†   (source)
  • As principal he has a veto over controversial stories.†   (source)
  • The executive should have the power to veto legislation.†   (source)
  • The veto power is chiefly designed to stop an attack on the constitutional rights of the Executive.†   (source)
  • Qualified Veto, Legislature Concurrence 13.†   (source)
  • This gives security that the veto will be used with great caution.†   (source)
  • The veto is proper because the legislature won't be infallible.†   (source)
  • Without the veto power, the President could not defend himself against Congress.†   (source)
  • The primary reason to give the Executive the veto is to enable him to defend himself.†   (source)
  • The king cannot make law, though he can veto laws.†   (source)
  • But he doesn't like to veto resolutions passed by the two houses of Parliament.†   (source)
  • But the convention chose a qualified veto.†   (source)
  • But veto power, alone, may not be enough.†   (source)
  • It has been a very long time since he has used the veto.†   (source)
  • The qualified veto will only take effect if a large part of the legislative body agrees with him.†   (source)
  • Number 73: Executive Salary; Executive Powers, Veto†   (source)
  • The king only uses his veto when it is absolutely proper or necessary.†   (source)
  • The chief executive has a qualified veto.†   (source)
  • A man might be afraid to defeat a law by his single VETO.†   (source)
  • The Executive needs either an absolute or qualified negative [veto] on legislative acts.†   (source)
  • The veto power isn't proper because the Executive has superior wisdom or virtue.†   (source)
  • The executive veto will often have an unperceived, though strong, operation.†   (source)
  • The executive might use this type of veto more often than an absolute veto.†   (source)
  • Star wanted to save my pet longbow but I vetoed it.†   (source)
  • Jim wanted to come along; he ran into a double veto.†   (source)
  • The guest list veto?†   (source)
  • That idea was vetoed.†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai's suggestion—Parashuram Pickles—was vetoed for the opposite reason: too much local relevance.†   (source)
  • Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull—WASSUP? with a smiley face—but Annabeth vetoed the idea.†   (source)
  • Lynn had volunteered to return to the hospital afterward to stay with her mom, but Amanda had vetoed the idea.†   (source)
  • If only Marcia hadn't pestered her with questions last night and all morning about what had happened the night before and the fact that she was going to the ranch today; if only she hadn't vetoed the first two outfits that Sophia had selected, all the while repeating, "I can't believe you're going riding with that hottie!" then Sophia wouldn't have been so nervous.†   (source)
  • The legislature was also given power to override the governor's veto, another change Adams regretted, as it was contrary to his belief in a strong, popularly elected executive.†   (source)
  • Although he was prepared to allow the black majority to vote and create legislation, he wanted to retain a minority veto.†   (source)
  • We heard that a core of junior officers plotted to spring the General from prison, but Mebratu vetoed this.†   (source)
  • But the offer was merely a "toy telephone," as all parliamentary action by Indians and Coloureds was subject to a white veto.†   (source)
  • Great China, speaking on behalf of all veto powers, accepted armistice and stated that our sky was now clear.†   (source)
  • As she predicted, the bill for the Bank of the United States passed by a sizable majority, despite opposition from Madison and Jefferson, who urged the President to exercise a veto on constitutional grounds.†   (source)
  • There would be two branches of the legislature, a Senate and a House of Representatives, an executive, the governor, who was to be elected at large annually and have veto power over the acts of the legislature.†   (source)
  • All great Peace Force nations, seven veto powers, would be hit: N.A. Directorate, Great China, India, Sovunion, PanAfrica (Chad exempted), Mitteleuropa, Brasilian Union.†   (source)
  • Veto Rarely Used against People's Will†   (source)
  • Qualified Negative: Presidential Veto†   (source)
  • If the monarch used his authority to permanently veto laws passed by Parliament, there would be some degree of agitation in the nation.†   (source)
  • Clearly, there is greater danger that the President will not use the veto when it in necessary than using it too often.†   (source)
  • Some people say a presidential veto is not proper because it assumes that one man has more virtue and wisdom than a group of men.†   (source)
  • The Executive is more likely to be charged with not using the veto often enough than using it too frequently.†   (source)
  • The first power is the qualified negative [veto] of the President on the acts or resolutions of the two houses of the legislature.†   (source)
  • President's Qualified Negative: Veto†   (source)
  • If the public good is being sacrificed, he will act because his constituents, who would normally agree with the legislative body, would probably support the veto.†   (source)
  • The federal government needs either the power to veto State laws or an authority in the federal courts to overrule any violation of the Union's Constitution.†   (source)
  • New York's Veto Successful†   (source)
  • But the veto has another use.†   (source)
  • Cautious Use of Veto Power†   (source)
  • Veto Defends against Bad Laws†   (source)
  • The emperor has exclusive right to propose and veto legislation, name ambassadors, confer titles, fill vacant electorates, found universities, grant privileges not injurious to the states, receive and send public revenues, and watch over the public safety.†   (source)
  • Over the President's veto Nebraska was admitted to the Union, seating two more anti-administration Senators.†   (source)
  • Pretty soon that executive committee will turn into a senate (called something else, probably) with a veto that can be upset only by a three-quarters majority that we will never get.†   (source)
  • That one remaining step was the assurance of a two-thirds majority in the Senate—for under the Constitution, such a majority was necessary to override a Presidential veto.†   (source)
  • Lamar knew that his speech and vote could not prevent passage of the Bland Bill by a tremendous margin, and its subsequent enactment over the veto of President Hayes.†   (source)
  • The temporary and unstable two-thirds majority which had enabled the Senate Radical Republicans on several occasions to enact legislation over the President's veto was, they knew, insufficiently reliable for an impeachment conviction.†   (source)
  • Early in 1867, Congress enacted over the President's veto the Tenure-of-Office Bill which prevented the President from removing without the consent of the Senate all new officeholders whose appointment required confirmation by that body.†   (source)
  • Although last-minute maneuvers failed to admit Colorado over the President's veto (sparsely populated Colorado had rejected statehood in a referendum), an unexpected tragedy brought false tears and fresh hopes for a new vote, in Kansas.†   (source)
  • When Lane voted to uphold Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and introduced the administration's bill for recognition of the new state government of Arkansas, Kansas had arisen in outraged heat.†   (source)
  • But many believe that the distinguished voice of Charles Evans Hughes, nearly alone but never afraid, and the courageous vetoes by Governor Al Smith of that Legislature's measures for controlling radicalism in the schools, were determining factors in arousing the nation to its senses.†   (source)
  • Bill after bill was vetoed by the President on the grounds that they were unconstitutional, too harsh in their treatment of the South, an unnecessary prolongation of military rule in peacetime or undue interference with the authority of the Executive Branch.†   (source)
  • The veteran Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, who had defeated Abe Lincoln for the Senate, had drafted much of the major reconstruction legislation which Johnson vetoed, and had voted to censure Johnson upon Stanton's removal.†   (source)
  • But not all of Andrew Johnson's vetoes were overturned; and the "Radical" Republicans of the Congress promptly realized that one final step was necessary before they could crush their despised foe (and in the heat of political battle their vengeance was turned upon their President far more than their former military enemies of the South).†   (source)
  • Arthur assumed the right of veto for the first time in his life.†   (source)
  • Plague had killed all colors, vetoed pleasure.†   (source)
  • But the Old Man vetoed this.†   (source)
  • According to one report, Lincoln said one day to Sumner: "We'll fetch 'em; just give us a little time…… I should never have had votes enough to send me here, if the people had supposed I should try to use my veto power to upset slavery."†   (source)
  • But the post-office officials had vetoed this, his colleagues of the local press said they could do nothing for him, and a clerk in the Prefect's office had laughed in his face.†   (source)
  • But I know who vetoed it.†   (source)
  • The veto, of course.†   (source)
  • You know very well what veto.†   (source)
  • What veto?†   (source)
  • First, the veto of the Censor, which put the supporters of the play on their mettle.†   (source)
  • It was promptly vetoed by President Johnson as "unconstitutional,"†   (source)
  • "unnecessary," and "extrajudicial," and failed of passage over the veto.†   (source)
  • The veto is, in fact, a sort of appeal to the people.†   (source)
  • Last year Congress passed a law to renew it, but the President put his veto upon the bill.†   (source)
  • George William Vertigan insisted in debate, and afterward privily to Sir Robert Fairlamb, that rats destroy food and perhaps spread disease, and His Excellency must veto the bill.†   (source)
  • Apart from her studies Anne expanded socially, for Marilla, mindful of the Spencervale doctor's dictum, no longer vetoed occasional outings.†   (source)
  • Distracted by the noise, he suggested their dismissal, but the Nawab Bahadur vetoed it; he said that musicians, who had walked many miles, might bring good luck.†   (source)
  • On George's intercourse with Amelia he put an instant veto—menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens.†   (source)
  • …Great Snow, perchance, which is still raging and chilling men's blood, I bear the muffled tone of their engine bell from out the fog bank of their chilled breath, which announces that the cars are coming, without long delay, notwithstanding the veto of a New England northeast snow-storm, and I behold the plowmen covered with snow and rime, their heads peering, above the mould-board which is turning down other than daisies and the nests of field mice, like bowlders of the Sierra Nevada,…†   (source)
  • He is armed with a veto or suspensive power, which allows him to stop, or at least to retard, its movements at pleasure.†   (source)
  • —Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf was lying.†   (source)
  • Mr. Linton has a prejudice against me: we quarrelled at one time of our lives, with unchristian ferocity; and, if you mention coming here to him, he'll put a veto on your visits altogether.†   (source)
  • Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous.†   (source)
  • That I have some claim to the exercise of a veto here, would not, I believe, be denied by any reasonable person cognizant of the relations between us: relations which, though thrown into the past by your recent procedure, are not thereby annulled in their character of determining antecedents.†   (source)
  • The veto of the Censor introduced quite a novel element of moral responsibility into the undertaking.†   (source)
  • Meantime, however, the breach between Congress and the President began to broaden, and a modified form of the lost bill was finally passed over the President's second veto, July 16.†   (source)
  • The Polish laws, which subjected the election of the sovereign to the veto of a single individual, suggested the murder of that individual or prepared the way to anarchy.†   (source)
  • The President is, moreover, provided with a suspensive veto, which allows him to oppose the passing of such laws as might destroy the portion of independence which the Constitution awards him.†   (source)
  • To this end they centred the whole executive power of the nation in a single arm; they granted extensive prerogatives to the President, and they armed him with the veto to resist the encroachments of the legislature.†   (source)
  • The duration of the Presidency is fixed at four years; the salary of the individual who fills that office cannot be altered during the term of his functions; he is protected by a body of official dependents, and armed with a suspensive veto.†   (source)
  • ] Dependence of the President—He is elective and responsible—He is free to act in his own sphere under the inspection, but not under the direction, of the Senate—His salary fixed at his entry into office—Suspensive veto.†   (source)
  • The struggle between the President and the legislature must always be an unequal one, since the latter is certain of bearing down all resistance by persevering in its plans; but the suspensive veto forces it at least to reconsider the matter, and, if the motion be persisted in, it must then be backed by a majority of two-thirds of the whole house.†   (source)
  • He is supported by a power with which his predecessors were unacquainted; and he tramples on his personal enemies whenever they cross his path with a facility which no former President ever enjoyed; he takes upon himself the responsibility of measures which no one before him would have ventured to attempt: he even treats the national representatives with disdain approaching to insult; he puts his veto upon the laws of Congress, and frequently neglects to reply to that powerful body.†   (source)
  • FEDERALIST No. 73 -- The Provision For The Support of the Executive, and the Veto Power.†   (source)
  • A man who might be afraid to defeat a law by his single VETO, might not scruple to return it for reconsideration; subject to being finally rejected only in the event of more than one third of each house concurring in the sufficiency of his objections.†   (source)
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