veto的意思|veto的解释-里氏词典

veto ['vi:tәu]

n. 否决权

vt. 否决, 禁止

veto
vetoes

[ noun ]

a vote that blocks a decision

<noun.act>

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)

<noun.attribute>

[ verb ]

vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

<verb.social>

blackball

negative

The President vetoed the bill

I forbid you to call me late at night
Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
Dad nixed our plans

Veto \Ve"to\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vetoed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Vetoing}.]
To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a
legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto
an appropriation bill.

Veto \Ve"to\, n.; pl. {Vetoes}. [L. veto I forbid.]
1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an
interdiction.

This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any
intimacy with her family. --G. Eliot.

2. Specifically:
(a) A power or right possessed by one department of
government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of
projects attempted by another department; especially,
in a constitutional government, a power vested in the
chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures
passed by the legislature. Such a power may be
absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People
in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the
President of the United States. Called also {the veto
power}.
(b) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition
or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill
passes.
(c) A document or message communicating the reasons of the
executive for not officially approving a proposed law;
-- called also {veto message}. [U. S.]

Note: Veto is not a term employed in the Federal
Constitution, but seems to be of popular use only.
--Abbott.

"The item veto is not a simple, politically neutral device for bringing about economy and efficiency in government.
Government party officials said they would ask President Roh Tae-woo to veto the laws approved by the opposition-controlled legislature.
But add that up by 250 million consumers in this country. That is a lot of money." Bush rejected a last-minute appeal Tuesday from senators from textile-producing states to back off his threatened veto.
Mr. Haussmann said he had reached agreement with EC officials that in the current first phase of German unification, the EC wouldn't have any powers to veto or limit aspects of continuing negotiations between the two countries.
Graber predicted he would have the 100 votes needed for a veto override by the time the attempt comes, probably in May.
Also this week, the House gave final congressional approval to legislation creating a congressional panel to investigate the eight-month-old strike against Eastern, a measure the Bush administration has threatened to veto.
But some analysts, particularly conservative legal scholars, have urged Mr. Bush not to wait for explicit authorization but simply to assert that the Constitution already implicitly gives him the power to exercise a line-item veto.
Holding enough votes this time to override a veto, Democrats are forcing a second election-year showdown with President Reagan over giving workers advance notice of plant closings and large layoffs.
Then-President Reagan vetoed the bill, but Congress is expected to pass it again this year. President Bush said on the campaign trail he would veto it.
His case can be made stronger by reference to the Framers' understanding of the nature of the veto, as indicated by the examples that constituted their experience in the matter.
Congress imposed the sanctions because of South Africa's policy of racial discrimination against its non-white majority, overriding a veto by President Reagan in the process.
A senior administration official described the industry measure as "veto bait."
"Deplorably, the committee has no right to veto ecologically harmful undertakings," he has said.
Bush said Saturday he would veto the bill today, declaring it would force businesses to adopt hiring and promotion quotas to ward off lawsuits.
There must be no question of Mr John Major employing a second veto.
I've always been opposed to abortion," Chiles said. "But when it comes down to who makes that decision, I think we want the woman to be able to make it." Chiles has pledged to veto any legislation restricting a woman's right to choose.
But the SEC backs the House version, which would block the Treasury's veto power.
Mr. Glazier takes as his text the Constitution's second veto clause, Clause 3 of Article I, Section 7.
Some GOP lawmakers fear a veto will hurt the party's pro-family image.
First, I want to acknowledge the vote in the Senate upholding my veto this afternoon and reaffirming our commitment to Chinese students in this country as well as the goal of improving relations with China.
"The warning has been taken to heart," said President Reagan. He was referring to a promise he made in January that if the spending measures were wrapped into a single piece of legislation, he would veto it.
Richard Darman, the White House budget director, said he would urge President Bush to veto the measure if defense spending was cut and if the "fiscally irresponsible" overall bill was not reduced in size.
Bush has not backed off his veto threat, but Gore and Wirth agreed Thursday on "exclusivity" contracts that would require the Federal Communications Commission to determine their use illegal if abused.
If EPA can veto this, there really isn't any project that anybody can develop that can pass the EPA." "There are a lot of grounds for (a federal court) appeal," he said.
Louisiana's Senate voted Saturday against overriding Gov. Buddy Roemer's veto of what would have been the nation's toughest state abortion law.
He said that congressional Democrats would merely attach the same plant-closing provision to subsequent legislation _ if a veto were upheld _ and said that lawmakers should not "play with this cat" any longer.
Although an Oct. 23 letter to the president, signed by 38 GOP senators, opposed enactment of "protectionist" legislation, it contained enough weasel wording to suggest that several signers might still back away from upholding a veto.
Without Donovan's vote or a switch by one of the "No" votes, death penalty advocates lack the 41 Senate votes needed to override a veto.
That is more than enough to sustain a veto in the 109-member House, although supporters of the bill say they have enough votes for an override in the Senate.
Several Democratic members of the panel conceded that they probably couldn't muster the two-thirds vote needed to override a veto.

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