Sentence examples for veto using from inspiring English sources

It rules out Scotland having a new supreme court – giving the current judiciary greater power to set and decide law, and does not promise to veto using nuclear weapons in Nato.

As the historian Timothy Garton Ash pointed out in our discussions last Friday, the so-called "heckler's veto" – the threat of disorder being used to silence speech – has in the case of Charlie Hebdo, and now Copenhagen, been replaced by an attempted "assassin's veto" – using the threat of murder to silence any of those with whom we disagree.

Since 1991, when Russia took over the Soviet seat on the council, it is the US that has been more prolific with its veto, using it 14 times (almost always to defend Israel from censure), compared to 13 Russian vetoes, and eight used by China.

Mr. Thompson, who as governor has a line-item veto, used it 1,900 times, and was never overturned.

I'm nearly two years now representing Ireland at the European council and I have never seen the veto used once.

If Obama were to veto the Keystone bill, it would be only the third veto used during his presidency.

One of Finland's ruling parties has vetoed using state money to support the project.

Mr Murphy has let it be known that the government might concede powers for select committees to veto use of the fast-track process for issues they consider controversial.

On October 3rd Mr Bush picked up his dusty veto pen, using it to cut back spending for the first time in his presidency.

They're aware that even if Westminster did veto Scotland using the pound, it wouldn't come about overnight.

He was insistent that the veto he used before Christmas was not a sign that Britain wanted to leave Europe.