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).

  • If the United States were to veto the resolution, as it is reportedly proposing to do, "it would detract from its credentials as the principal promoter and protector of the Middle East peace process," it said.

  • The NYT lead announces that President Clinton has won the federal budget battles, and the WP goes with a scoop on the likely veto of the MCI-Sprint merger by federal regulators.

  • Nixon hated PBS no more than he did the commercial networks, but his veto over PBS's funding and his power to appoint board members to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS's overseers) gave him a direct outlet for his hate.

  • We can establish that but for Stalin's veto in December 1945, the Soviet Union might well have ratified the Bretton Woods postwar financial system.


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