Example sentences for: veto

How can you use “veto” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gore voted in favor of the veto override, which failed, 223-190 (falling short of the necessary two-thirds majority).

  • The paper goes on to characterize international reaction thus far as "public condemnations and much hand-wringing," and also notes a problem with a proposed interposition of a U.N. peacekeeping force: China, which can veto such a move, is believed to be opposed to it.

  • The proposal would require the Security Council to reaffirm the suspension policy every 100 days, and any member would, as usual, have a unilateral veto.

  • This is where elected representatives come in, and over them we do have veto power.

  • Although the line-item veto had been the darling of several Republican presidents, the Wall Street Journal , after surveying Clinton's targeted cuts last week of federal subsidies to such corporations as Westinghouse and 3M, complains today that the administration's line-item decision process "can appear often arbitrary and highly vulnerable to politics."


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