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Nobody is going to veto, but enough nations look to be abstaining that the vote will fail.
The obvious question is, does the undermind will things to happen that the conscious mind can only veto, not initiate?
Congress overrode the veto and the Freedmen's Bureau continued to operate for a number of years.
To refrain from acting in any of these cases would have been to hand a veto to violent extremists.
A sitting president can, however, veto the release of an ex-president's papers.
There is no mention of any veto power, and the officials are duumvirs, aediles, augurs, and priests.
Their enactment was delayed by a presidential veto, which was overridden by the National Assembly.
Congress has condemned such actions, but has, through delay and deferment, resisted sending legislation to the President for possible veto.
If he was told there was such a veto power or power of attorney, why did he not ask to see proof of same.
Having unknowingly signed over a significant portion of her shares, she found she no longer had a veto on rights sales.
President Bush should insist that subsidies and pork be removed or veto the bills.
Controversial plans to allow voters to veto inflation-busting council tax rises were floated yesterday by an ex-Labour Cabinet Minister.
The use of the pocket veto does extend the president's authority at a domestic level.
The pocket veto, not subject to override, is used when congressional adjournment prevents a bill's return.
Lincoln defeated the bill by a pocket veto, meaning he kept the bill unsigned for ten days, whereafter the bill became invalid.
By contrast, veto messages by their very nature involve disagreement and may, in some instances at least, slip over into contentiousness.
And the commission has continued to let the candidates nominate and veto panelists.
A Presidential veto may be overruled by Parliament, provided there are 160 votes in support of such a motion.
The Kansas legislature is likely to try to override the veto, and unless some legislators change their votes, the override will pass.
The president had veto power over any bill passed by Congress, subject to a congressional override by a two-thirds vote of each house.
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I also appeal to Congress to pass the line-item veto you promised the American people.
But the Assembly was not feuillant, and the veto began its estrangement from the king.
This veto power was a trammel, and an unnecessary restraint on the freedom of legislation.
May he veto a bill upon grounds of public policy as well as upon grounds of unconstitutionality?
Only the interposition of Grant's Presidential veto prevented this first positive backward step in the direction of fiat money.
But, fortunately, Augustus had heard portions of it, and the imperial veto overpowered the poet's infanticidal desire.
He used his veto on the laws, for instance, and otherwise exercised his prerogatives.
For if the English Parliament have the power to veto our wishes, where's the difference?
Lafayette, who imagined himself to be copying the American constitution, proposed that the king should have a suspensive veto.
The people have a suspensive veto and, finally, a definitive veto, which they may exercise when they please.
The Ministers themselves were unable to insist on the absolute veto in preference to the suspensive thus defined.
They resolved, on September 21, that the suspensive veto should extend over two legislatures.
It sustains the frequent use of the veto, and under the name of Democracy delights in the exercise of monarchical prerogative.
He had not finished with this last measure, which had been passed by Bassett's bi-partisan combination over the governor's veto.
The consequence of the liberum veto, pushed to excess, is paralysis of power or anarchy.
The patriotic chancellor recommended the abolition of the The liberum veto.
He adhered to his veto on the communication of the Montespan documents to the chambre.
The Diet was to be confederated, that the Poles might be deprived of their last resource, the liberum veto.
This right of separation is simply the liberum veto resuscitated for the benefit of federal institutions.
The liberum veto in Poland was the right of each representative to oppose the veto of the laws which were voted unanimously.
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