Sentence examples for two veto from inspiring English sources

A few countries have two veto players; Switzerland and Australia have three.

The two veto powers had been negotiating on a draft resolution for the past seven weeks following Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test on 6 January.

His formal disapprovals (in the form of two veto messages and one pocket veto, by which legislation is killed by the failure of the president to sign a bill before the adjournment of Congress) were questioned, but the two returned measures failed to command the two-thirds majority necessary to override his vetoes.

At this point, you had two veto options: to either return the bill with your objections to Congress, whereupon it could take up the matter at the start of the 111th Congress's second session in early January, or to issue a pocket veto, which kills the bill without return to Congress.

She outlined the scheme at the UN Security Council, amid delicate negotiations to secure the support of Russia and China, two veto-wielding countries.

Lavrov said in a statement that the two veto-wielding UN security council members would stay in close contact on the issue.

This, the right to beat up your own people (especially separatist minorities), is a principle deeply cherished by most members of the UN, including Russia and China, two veto-wielding members of the Security Council.

But Russia and China, two veto-wielding members of the Security Council, voted against the resolution, underlining international divisions over how to approach Damascus and signaling that punitive measures against the Syrian government were unlikely.

But France and Russia, two veto-bearing Council members, dug in their heels against giving the United States and its ally Britain blanket permission in an initial resolution to launch a strike to topple Mr. Hussein.

Earlier today, as Russia sought to draw support from the international community, Mr Lavrov said that he had discussed Ukraine with his Chinese counterpart and that the two veto-wielding UN Security Council members had "broadly coinciding points of view" and would stay in close contact on the issue.

George Washington issued two vetoes; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, none.