Sentence examples for cast veto from inspiring English sources
When the alliance gave way to the Cold War just a few years after the UN's founding conference in San Francisco, Moscow began to cast veto after veto, and the Council was paralyzed for much of the next four decades.
As we surround ourselves with people like us, we reinforce our own views, and the result is a more polarized population". 2) America's political system isn't democratic enough, writes Francis Fukuyama: "The advantage of the British system with its fewer opportunities to cast vetoes is clear when it comes to passing budgets.
What does he make of the administration's aversion to casting vetoes in the U.N. Security Council?
"We hope no one will cast a veto," he said, referring to the Americans who have vetoed resolutions targeting Israel in the past.
Even if this happens, France still can implacably cast a veto.
Since 1990, the United States has cast a veto on Council resolutions 16 times, many concerning Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Though most decisions are made through majority voting, any country can still cast a veto in key areas.
Governments and the EU are busily drafting the text of a minor new treaty agreed at December's summit, where Mr Cameron famously cast his veto.
Many now ask whether Mr Cameron really wants a compromise, or would prefer for domestic reasons to cast his veto, as he did last December.
One influential Republican, Richard G. Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he would lead an override fight in the Senate if the President cast a veto.
