Sentence examples for majority veto from inspiring English sources

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A mayor with a four year term could greatly restrict councillors, with elected members requiring a two-thirds majority to veto a mayor's policies.

"To bind a future board to 80%, make a majority get vetoed by a minority, is really an extreme case," Bob Schoonover, president of Service Employees International Union Local 721, told the officials.

Then he stripped $1.3 billion out of spending bills approved by the Legislature's Democratic majorities, and vetoed a so-called millionaire's tax.

(With its House majority, it has veto power already).

The better way to understand what has happened is that neither side can command a majority without a veto.

Tom Angell, chairman of Marijuana Majority, said the veto "likely just amounts to a short delay" and that he's "very hopeful" the state will become the first in history to end marijuana prohibition by an act of the legislature. .

Of course, if Ryan and McConnell gave a green light to the bill, lawmakers would have to pass it with a veto-proof majority, since Trump would likely veto it.

"We question whether the majority of these vetoes are legal".

A nine-vote majority, even with vetoes by France or Russia, American officials believe, might still carry some moral authority in a trembling world.

Madigan got the speakership back and since then has built his House Democratic majority into a veto-proof super-majority.