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单词 to put a veto on
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to put (also place, set, etc.) a veto on (also upon)
a. A prohibition having as its object or result the prevention of an act; an instance of rejecting, banning, or blocking an action, proposal, etc. Also: the power to prevent or check action in this way. Often in to put (also place, set, etc.) a veto on (also upon).
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1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 1108 Hee who doth exalt Himselfe to raigne,..Dare gainst this Law most impudently stand, And God's great Veto boldly counter-mand.
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Minor Prophets (Zach. ii. 13) God..refraineth the remainder of mans wrath... If he do but..interpose his Veto.
1671 R. McWard Case of Accomm. 85 His not assenting to this circumstance will be of no lesse consequence for his purpose, then if he had reserved unto himself an inhibiting veto, upon the substance of the whole businesse.
1788 H. Walpole Reminisc. in Lett. (1857) I. p. cxviii They persuaded her to demand of the new King an earl's coronet for Lord Bathurst. She did—the Queen put in her veto.
1794 U. Price Ess. Picturesque 43 (note) Had I not advanced too far to think of retreating, I might possibly have been deterred by so absolute a veto from such authority.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott III. x. 323 Upon this ingenious proposition Scott at once set his veto.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxiv. 134 The Rector had beforehand put a veto on any Dissenting chairman.
1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) xv. 255 They were much displeased at my immediately placing a veto upon their bloody intentions.
1922 L. Halphen in A. Tilley Medieval France v. 197 They carried furs,..precious metals, wine also (which in spite of the veto of the Koran, was bought from them in the African markets).
1976 E. Dunlop Flute in Mayferry St. v. 49 Marion, who knew a veto when she heard one, did not even bother to argue.
2011 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Apr. 10/1 Some posts would be deleted not because they actually defame or violate privacy but because someone complains that they do. The heckler's veto, as it's called, is anathema to free-speech advocates.
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