Sentence examples for an effort to override from inspiring English sources

Children's advocates and legislators and governors from both sides of the aisle are furiously lobbying House Republicans in an effort to override the veto in a vote scheduled for Thursday.

Members of his own party have vowed to lobby their colleagues in an effort to override the veto.

An effort to override the veto fell three votes short in the Senate.

It was an explicit effort to override the decision eight years earlier.

Boehner, along with 168 Republicans and 16 Democrats, embarked on a failed effort to override that veto, even at a time when Ohio's own Attorney General had begun suing banks for fraud.

Democrats failed in a previous effort to override the president on the issue and have already extended the program through this year to prevent eligible children from losing their coverage.

Democrats made a token effort to override the president's veto, but with the Republican Party opposed - including Lugar - the veto was sustained, the surge continued, and so it will go until enough Republicans defect to the other side.

If that's the case, there may have been a deliberate and concerted effort to override MF Global's internal controls to gain access to segregated customer assets, and if that can be proved, those responsible should be prosecuted and, if convicted, go to jail.

Any effort to override a veto would begin in the Senate, where the bill passed April 11 on a 63-34 vote.

If the Democrats had not lost control of the Senate, and Mr Obama went ahead and established immigration policies which Democrats had been unable to push through the legislature secure in the knowledge that they could still block any Republican effort to override them then this might represent a bit of a power grab by the executive.

State Representative Linda Chapa LaVia, Democrat of Aurora, is leading the effort to override Gov. Pat Quinn's amendatory veto of a bill that would have exempted the evaluations.