单词 | veto proposition |
释义 | > as lemmasveto proposition C1. General attributive, as veto message, veto power, veto proposition, etc. ΚΠ 1818 Cambr. Reveille (Cambr. City, Indiana) 16 Dec. The balance of the message is mostly a federal argument in favor of the exercise of the veto power by the President. 1830 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 2 July The nullifying politicians of South Carolina will not accept the Veto Message. 1861 W. J. Fitzpatrick Life, Times, & Corr. Dr. Doyle I. vi. 154 The friends of the Catholic claims had abandoned the old veto propositions. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 941/2 While it did not give them actual control, [it] allowed the exercise of a veto power somewhat akin to it. 1911 Titonka (Iowa) Topic 30 Mar. The ‘certain contingency’ means the omission or refusal of the Lords to accept the veto provision which the Liberal government has prepared. 2006 A. Kuczynski Beauty Junkies vii. 142 In his veto message, the Governator agreed with the plastic surgeons who had argued that oral surgeons were not prepared to do the types of operations in question. 2015 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 22 May a8 The veto power in the Security Council has frustrated UN efforts to stop aggression. < as lemmas |
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