| The UN Special Committee that vetoes imports to Iraq disallows essential painkillers, such as morphine and other chemotherapy medicines. |
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| Following this process, most of the vetoes were then actioned by US delegates to the committee. |
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| Unfortunately, President Carter's battles with Congress over legislative vetoes alienated many members. |
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| Mandela called on world leaders, especially those with vetoes in the UN Security Council, to oppose him. |
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| Britain also sought Swedish support at the recent Nice summit in defence of its national vetoes on tax and welfare policies. |
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| Such support was pivotal in conjunction with vetoes threatened and vetoes cast, even if the payoff was not instantaneous. |
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| Vetoes, threats of vetoes, and government shutdowns kept most anti-environmental measures from becoming law. |
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| You're already hearing, also, concerns about the fact that he never vetoes any Democratic or even some of the more expensive Republican proposals in Congress. |
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| In the event of vetoes or crises, the Senate President shall be empowered to suspend sine die adjournment for a period up to one week for purposes of reconvening the Senate. |
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| Many Syrians see the vetoes used to block a robust resolution as an excuse for inaction. |
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| Last, what to do in light of the Security Council vetoes of China and, particularly, Russia? |
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| There was an attempt made in September at Tampere to change this issue from one of national vetoes to qualified majority voting. |
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| Because of how it operates, and because of the Russian and Chinese vetoes, the UN was not in a position to intervene. |
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| Now we don't have to really divide or to make vetoes on people. |
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| To take key decisions on jobs, security and quality of life, the Union needs an end to unscrupulous use of national vetoes. |
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| In all these areas we must move away from paralysing vetoes and towards truly effective decision-making. |
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| The truth is that the government is navel gazing over distinct society and constitutional vetoes, ideas that went out of favour 30 years ago. |
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| Dr Kaarls said that there must be no vetoes deposited during the final vote, but that abstentions were allowed. |
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| One might have been slow and have had too many vetoes, while another has only one voice, and the results aren't much better. |
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| The drafters viewed power politics, and the opportunistic use of Security Council vetoes, as an obstacle to individual accountability under international human rights law. |
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| More than ever before, the United Nations' military and financial capacity must be examined in depth, and the vetoes of its permanent members seriously challenged. |
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| It is exemplified by the fact that last December the government did not even deem it appropriate to consider that British Columbia might be a separate region when it was doling out vetoes for future constitutional amendments. |
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| If we had an appropriate system in the United Nations, the general assembly could probably, through a strong enough vote, overturn certain vetoes. |
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| I never believed that because I have always been convinced that in those areas where the Union can take action, where it is not hamstrung by national vetoes, major results can be achieved if we work with Washington. |
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| First, the Constitution explicitly requires supermajorities only in a few special cases: ratifying treaties and constitutional amendments, overriding presidential vetoes, expelling members and for impeachments. |
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| Democrats will probably try to triumphally accomplish what they've begun, and US president only can stop them, if he vetoes their draft resolutions. |
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| Those vetoes, as we've said repeatedly, were highly regrettable, and place both Russia and China on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of the Syrian people. |
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| Some want to legitimise this encroachment, by giving the committees formal vetoes, an automatic right to parliamentary debates and more resources. |
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| Did the former prime minister raise with his Chinese interlocutors the repeated Security Council vetoes and opposition from the PRC to any form of constructive resolutions to the Sudanese matter? |
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| Chinese firms and businessmen create extraterritorial Chinese islands that are protected by corrupt rulers, who are in turn protected by Chinese vetoes in the Security Council. |
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| I am thinking most notably of the thresholds above which companies are involved and the institution of part vetoes using sanctions in certain cases, which I truly regret. |
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| As of 2012, 269 vetoes had been cast since the Security Council's inception. |
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| We call on them to refrain from exercising their vetoes against efforts to assist or defend UN Member States that have become victim to the use or the threat of use of weapons of mass destruction. |
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| My delegation and the majority of Member States believe that, pending their eventual elimination, vetoes should be confined to matters truly appropriate for consideration under that Chapter. |
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| Fourthly, you stated that you would like to abolish a host of vetoes, which will give us in this House an undoubted right of codecision, although that is not what we want in certain areas. |
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| This report will do nothing to move us on because it still insists on everything which has been rejected, namely the apparatus of statehood for the EU and further diminution in national powers and vetoes. |
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| It may alter the constitution and ordinary laws, dismiss the cabinet, and override presidential vetoes. |
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| From 375 BC to 371 BC, the republic experienced a constitutional crisis during which the tribunes used their vetoes to prevent the election of senior magistrates. |
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