Example sentences for: vetoed

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

  • USAT and the WP remind readers that House Republicans attached a similar poison pill provision to the last attempt at a UN pay-up, which was vetoed by President Clinton.

  • The Los Angeles Times ' top non-local story is the Senate's 55-44 passage of a $1 minimum-wage hike--a bill that has not passed the House and would likely be vetoed by President Clinton for the tax breaks it gives to businesses.

  • For the second time in six years, the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton has vetoed the appointment of a professor of science studies with, apparently, impeccable credentials.

  • Bush spends a full chapter attempting to defuse a potential Democratic issue by explaining why he vetoed an HMO reform bill in Texas.

  • (To recap: The Justice Department vetoed Microsoft's 1994 attempt to purchase Intuit, maker of the personal-finance program Quicken, on the grounds that it was anti-competitive--a bid to corner the personal-finance-software market.)


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