Veto

(noun.) a vote that blocks a decision.

(noun.) the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature).

(verb.) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; 'The President vetoed the bill'.

乔茜录入

• Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• As before, Edison was allotted to press report, and remembers very distinctly taking the Presidential message and veto of the District of Columbia bill by President Johnson. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The plebeian power to stop business by the veto of their representatives, the tribunes, was fully exercised. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He could even carry his free veto, his _liberum veto_, further. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One dissentient on the council could bar any proposal--on the lines of the old Polish _liberum veto_ (chapter xxxvi, § 7). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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