| The president had an opportunity to exercise fiscal discipline by vetoing a farm bill that many people, including myself, felt was excessive. |
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| I don't think she knows that much about the internet, and she seems very unhelpful, vetoing my ideas without directing me towards anything else. |
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| A last-ditch attempt to persuade an Amsterdam court to stop the company's supervisory board from vetoing the sale yesterday came to nothing. |
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| One speaker urged the permanent members to exercise restraint with respect to vetoing promising Secretary-General candidates. |
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| Concern surrounds the model decided on in Nice to allow the vetoing of decisions. |
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| Sarkozy is quoted as saying that France would go as far as vetoing any WTO deal that did not satisfy its requirements on agriculture. |
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| Such a Phase II investigation may end with the Commission vetoing the measure of a national regulator. |
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| And, while he was vetoing marriage equality, it turns out that he was carrying on with his housekeeper! |
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| If vetoing draft regulations is construed as a measure of success, then success was short lived. |
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| He annoyed his own supporters by vetoing more local capital projects in his first year than had been vetoed in the history of the state. |
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| This exercise led him to conclude that, with few exceptions, the six presidents differed little in their publicly stated motives for vetoing legislation. |
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| The present issue is not therefore a question of, as it were, vetoing the talks if not everything is achieved before they begin. |
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| The United States are vetoing intellectual property rights and patents on molecules that save lives. |
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| Doubtless, he will spend a lot of time tussling with the Republicans and vetoing some of their loonier pieces of legislation. |
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| Again, the Council failed today by vetoing this draft resolution to require Mr. Mugabe's Government to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered. |
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| With the vetoing of this draft resolution, we now need to look for a new way forward. |
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| While vowing to overturn the cut-off if re-elected, President George H. W. Bush refrained from vetoing it because Congress had attached legislation to it that he favoured. |
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| By vetoing a simple resolution condemning an aggressor, they have subordinated Security Council procedure to self-interest and reduced it to emptiness. |
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| In countries such as these, the upper house generally focuses on scrutinizing and possibly vetoing the decisions of the lower house. |
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| One of those bodies is likely to be the Security Council, but its voting system, vetoing powers and membership would need to change before it could hope to become effective. |
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| At the UN Security Council on February 4th, Russia and China raised Western ire by vetoing a mild resolution that would have urged Bashar Assad, the president, to adhere to a peace plan drafted by the Arab League. |
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| Mr Fazio is no stranger to criticism: in 1999, for instance, he raised eyebrows by vetoing a bid for Banca di Roma by Sanpaolo IMI, a big bank in Turin, without much of an explanation. |
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| Morocco has blocked the process, repeatedly vetoing the most up-to-date proposals made by James Baker, and this ultimately led to his resignation. |
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| The Kosovo air battle was a very distasteful moment for the U. S. administration, as countries with absolutely no military capability were vetoing air strikes by the nations that had it. |
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| Turkey needs also to stop vetoing Cyprus participation in international organizations and take steps towards normalization of bilateral relations between Turkey and Cyprus, as called for in the Accession Partnership. |
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| Canadian companies operating in Argentina did not want a glacier protection law to limit their mining prospects and subsequently pressured the President into vetoing the law. |
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| The Italian minister in charge of EUÂ affairs, Andrea Ronchi, threatened on several occasions to block the dossier by vetoing the current proposal, which needs the unanimous approval of the Council. |
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| The brutal inhumanity of individuals occurring there is, in large part, through it constantly vetoing the motions that come forward at the United Nations as well. |
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