I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pocket veto
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bill
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Last year the proposal was part of the overall tax bill which was vetoed by former President Bush.
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The measure gives presidents the power to veto specific spending projects or tax breaks within a bill without vetoing it altogether.
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The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October.
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Two previous bills had been vetoed by President Bush.
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The bill was vetoed by President Clinton.
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I will veto any attempt to repeal the assault weapons ban or the Brady bill .
budget
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Archer suggested many of the reforms sought by Clinton were in the seven-year balanced budget package vetoed by the president.
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Last year, Weld proposed a $ 25 million budget cut, then vetoed a $ 19 million budget increase.
decision
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The new law also empowered parliament to veto any government decision on direct links within 30 days.
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If the president vetoes their decision , both chambers must then muster a two-thirds vote to override the veto.
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The President also undertook not to veto decisions taken by the Cabinet.
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The teams were to operate by consensus, each having the power to veto decisions , none with the power to impose.
government
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Will the Government veto a draft treaty Hon. Members Would you?
idea
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I vetoed the idea on the grounds that Firecracker would spot the deception in two seconds.
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Our official escort Mundin vetoes both ideas .
legislation
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If the president can be induced to veto Dole legislation , that claim will look stronger still.
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President Clinton has vowed to veto the legislation .
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The Senate would have the power to veto legislation affecting Melanesians, but would have restricted powers over financial legislation.
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Although the chief executive can veto legislation , the legislature can override that veto.
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Losing the majority in the Bundesrat, which may veto tax legislation , is a nuisance but not a disaster.
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Clinton already has vetoed Republican-drafted welfare reform legislation twice.
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In 1993, Wilson vetoed routine enabling legislation to keep the advertising program going.
measure
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If passed it would present Bush with the politically undesirable prospect of having to veto the measure during the election campaign.
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John KitzEaber, a Democrat, also threatened to veto any measure that eliminated the certificates.
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President Clinton vetoed the first two measures .
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Clinton has vowed to veto the measure and a similar version now being considered by the Senate.
plan
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He can veto such plans , confirming his reputation as an uncaring conservative.
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But Wilson still vetoed the plan , saying it essentially preserved the current system.
power
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The Senate would have the power to veto legislation affecting Melanesians, but would have restricted powers over financial legislation.
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The measure gives presidents the power to veto specific spending projects or tax breaks within a bill without vetoing it altogether.
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The teams were to operate by consensus, each having the power to veto decisions, none with the power to impose.
president
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The president vetoed the bill - and the Senate failed by a single vote to override his veto.
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The measure gives presidents the power to veto specific spending projects or tax breaks within a bill without vetoing it altogether.
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The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October.
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It reeks of just another favor to the rich, and the president has vowed to veto it.
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The president vetoed two reform proposals late last year.
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The president vetoed those cuts, and is working to keep Medicare affordable for this and future generations of seniors.
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The president vetoed two previous Republican-sponsored welfare reform bills.
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If the president vetoes their decision, both chambers must then muster a two-thirds vote to override the veto.
proposal
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Commercial considerations appear to be partly behind its threat to veto the proposal .
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The president vetoed two reform proposals late last year.
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The measure, which becomes law Jan. 1, no longer allows a city council to unilaterally veto a secession proposal .
welfare
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Clinton already has vetoed Republican-drafted welfare reform legislation twice.
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The president vetoed two previous Republican-sponsored welfare reform bills.
■ VERB
promise
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The difference is that last year George Bush promised to veto the bill, and did so.
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The Republican governor, Arne Carlson, has promised to veto the bill.
threaten
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Bush threatened to veto the compromise bill which seemed likely to emerge from these two versions of the unemployment legislation.
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John KitzEaber, a Democrat, also threatened to veto any measure that eliminated the certificates.
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The following day he threatened to veto the law again and, if necessary, to dissolve parliament.
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Other contract proposals are languishing in the Senate, and Clinton has either vetoed or threatened to veto the rest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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European plans to deregulate air fares were vetoed by Spain.
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Jenny wanted to invite all her friends, but I quickly vetoed that idea.
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Requests to take foster children abroad are often vetoed by the biological parent.
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The deal was agreed by the board but vetoed by the chairman.
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The governor vetoed a bill that would have given some much-needed money to public libraries.
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The governor vetoed another version of the bill last fall.
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The president has the right to veto any piece of legislation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bill Clinton vetoed the balanced budget.
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If the president can be induced to veto Dole legislation, that claim will look stronger still.
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It generally works by consensus, so a country can veto its conclusions.
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It reeks of just another favor to the rich, and the president has vowed to veto it.
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Other contract proposals are languishing in the Senate, and Clinton has either vetoed or threatened to veto the rest.
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Participants may read the transcript and, if they are unhappy, can veto release for a time.
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President Clinton has vowed to veto the legislation.
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The teams were to operate by consensus, each having the power to veto decisions, none with the power to impose.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
legislative
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This is the perspective from which we should approach the novel constitutional questions presented by the legislative veto .
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This procedure came to be known as the legislative veto .
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The prominence of the legislative veto mechanism in our contemporary political system and its importance to Congress can hardly be overstated.
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Accordingly, over the past five decades, the legislative veto has been placed in nearly 200 statutes.
presidential
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With those southerners on board, Mr Edwards believes Congress may have a chance of overriding another presidential veto .
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The final vote was 57-41, well short of the 65 needed to override a presidential veto .
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He said that if necessary he would use his presidential veto .
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J.. Even if passed by the Senate, it faces a near-certain presidential veto .
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A subsequent vote in the Senate failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn a presidential veto .
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However, the measure faces a certain presidential veto if it clears the Senate.
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If Congress and the administration are to avoid a head-on clash, and a presidential veto , a compromise must be struck.
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It is not smart politics to sit back and wait for presidential vetoes and proclamations to bail us out of every jam.
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message
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Wilson wrote in a veto message .
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Mr Clinton said in his veto message .
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His veto message is significant because it makes it even harder for lawmakers to equalize school funding.
power
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The candidates of the main parties are selected locally, though the national party in each case retains some veto power .
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N., the national agencies held veto power , giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
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Time and again action by the Security Council was blocked by the veto power of the Soviet Union and other permanent members.
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First and foremost, our fear that the right wing would have veto power over appointments to the Supreme Court.
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The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers .
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The president, with his veto power , blocked these reactionary schemes.
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She argued that the veto power robbed Valley voters of the right to decide their fate.
■ VERB
exercise
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The first president to have the power, Clinton has now exercised the line-item veto 55 times in three months.
give
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This would have given a veto to the whites, in particular Afrikaans-speaking whites.
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The trouble with the proposal was that under no circumstances would the United States give up its ultimate veto on the bombs.
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Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected.
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In a key vote Wednesday night, the Senate agreed to give line-item veto authority to the next president.
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Although that would reduce the union block vote more drastically than other options, it would also give both sides a veto .
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Successful operation is obviously the way to achieve that not by giving employees a veto as proposed in amendment No. 3.
override
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With those southerners on board, Mr Edwards believes Congress may have a chance of overriding another presidential veto .
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Clinton vetoed the bill after being lobbied by trial lawyers, but Congress overrode the veto.
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The Louisiana House of Representatives immediately voted to override his veto , by 73 votes to 31.
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Although the chief executive can veto legislation, the legislature can override that veto.
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As in the 29 other instances, an attempt by Congress to override the veto failed to muster the required two-thirds majority.
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Republicans acknowledge little hope of getting enough votes to override a Clinton veto .
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On June 24 the House voted by only 271:156 in favour of overriding the veto .
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The final vote was 57-41, well short of the 65 needed to override a presidential veto .
threaten
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The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers.
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President Clinton had threatened a veto of the immigration bill if it included the Gallegly amendment.
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But President Clinton has threatened a veto if it contains the Gallegly amendment.
use
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He said that if necessary he would use his presidential veto .
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He has instead decided to settle for being the first president to use the line-item veto .
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The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a result of the president's veto the inner-cities program will not now go ahead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress.
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However, the effect of requiring unanimity means in practice that any one constituent body has a right of veto .
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It remains to be seen whether the line-item veto will control spending.
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The president vetoed the bill - and the Senate failed by a single vote to override his veto.
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The president, with his veto power, blocked these reactionary schemes.
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The Senate gave President Clinton a victory Thursday when lawmakers sustained his veto of a bill banning certain late-term abortions.
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The two houses would have absolute veto rights over each other.
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Unfortunately, the line-item veto is one of those dumb ideas that took on a life of its own.