Sentence examples for veto the request from inspiring English sources

Washington has said it will veto the request.

Each clemency petition must survive multiple reviewers, any one of whom can effectively veto the request.

Last year, the Palestinians submitted an application to the Security Council to become a full member state of the United Nations, but the effort went nowhere; the United States made it clear it would veto the request.

He said that the appeal would change the ground rules of the conflict, and that although the Obama administration had vowed to veto the request and Israel had threatened punitive countermeasures, the Arab uprisings should make them reconsider.

Barack Obama keeps on saying that the U.S. will veto the request, and all the experts seem to agree.

The Palestinians also have reason to pause, because it is not certain that they have enough votes to win in the security council whether or not the US vetoes the request.

Since the proposed currency issuance greatly exceeded the amount needed for repairs, Dummer vetoed the request and dissolved the assembly.

Her captain requested tugboats to help ground the ship on a nearby 12 m sandbank at 23:27, but Admiral Bruno Brivonesi, commander of the 5th Battleship Division, vetoed the request until it was too late and Conte di Cavour had to use a deeper, 17 m, sandbank at 04:45 the following morning.

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has vowed to pursue statehood before the Security Council this week; American officials say the United States will veto that request, should it gain the broader Council's approval.

Last year, the Palestinians submitted an application to the Security Council to become a full member state of the United Nations, but the United States made it clear it would veto approval for the request.

Those old cliches come into play: the cigar-chomping producer with dollar signs in his eyes, vetoing the extravagant requests of the tantrum-prone director.