Sentence examples for obtain veto from inspiring English sources

The recent, testy summit in Brussels, at which David Cameron blocked a new EU treaty after failing to obtain veto powers over future financial regulation, points to ways in which that might happen.Bagehot's gloom is not universally shared, it should be conceded.

The directors have obtained veto power over all major deals.

When his lawyers discovered that the partnership had never been formally confirmed, Waters returned to the High Court in an attempt to obtain a veto over further use of the band's name.

Initially, the commission sought to obtain an undisputed veto over national regulators.

But Russia would almost certainly veto any effort to obtain United Nations Security Council authorization to take military action.

All countries should have an equal opportunity to be considered for temporary special membership status that would allow them to participate in multi-country vetoes of UNSC resolutions and obtain other prerogatives.

Even if proposals draw 60 votes to overcome a Senate filibuster, a presidential veto would require that the Senate obtain 67 votes to override it.

The abstinence-only provisions were intended to obtain Republican votes sufficient to overturn a presidential veto.

The spousal veto on obtaining a gender recognition certificate (legal confirmation) for instance, is problematic, in an era when gay marriage is acceptable.

But, he said, when President Bill Clinton obtained the line item veto, Mr. Giuliani, as mayor of New York, filed a lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court, where it was struck down.

China, as one writer puts it, may have obtained an "outsider's veto" over ASEAN when its interests are threatened.The grouping could thus become a victim of a new era of great-power rivalry in the region.