Sentence examples for veto points from inspiring English sources

Now you need to get past four veto points to pass legislation.

Instead, the Democrats' veto points are in the Senate and in the White House.

A plethora of regulatory hurdles and other veto points drag things out and increase costs.

Many of these veto points were put in place for good reason.

Our ungainly eighteenth-century legislative mechanism, drowning in twenty-first-century campaign cash, is shot through with veto points.

Over the years, the process of getting infrastructure projects approved has become riddled with what political scientists call "veto points".

"We have added a new veto point in American politics," Gregory Koger, the author of "Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate," says.

Now the approvals process should be able to provide expertise and support to departments in developing cost-effective alternatives, rather than simply being a veto point.

Each of these little martinets is a veto point on which pressure may be concentrated; each is the fulcrum of a lever that can move the whole body.

But right now, it's easier to see him slipping into a trajectory more like that of Jesse Helms — an influential veto point but not a dominant figure within the party — or else following Sarah Palin into the world of post-political right-wing celebrity than it is to imagine the next twenty years being the Cruz Era in conservatism.

Each veto point provides an opportunity for a lobbyist to stop the process by raising doubts or finding an ally to slow or stop things.