The word "vetoed" is correct in written English.
It is used when someone has exercised their right to reject or prohibit a decision or proposal. Example: "The president vetoed the bill, preventing it from becoming law." Alternatives include "rejected" or "blocked."
Despite delivering well-aimed punches on Darling's lack of detail about future tax powers and Scotland's viability outside the UK, the first minister flailed on his "plan B" proposals for a currency now that the UK parties had vetoed a deal on the pound, relying on poorly judged quips about no campaigners worrying about aliens invading Scotland.
It was vetoed jointly by Sinn Féin and the nationalist SDLP which deployed a "petition of concern" under which bills can be defeated if one side of the sectarian/political divide claims there is insufficient cross-community support for a law.
Sinn Féin and the smaller nationalist party in the Northern Ireland executive, the SDLP, have vetoed the introduction of the Westminster coalition government's changes to the benefits system, claiming they will hit the most vulnerable in society.
Attempts to legislate to allow gay marriage have been vetoed by the Democratic Unionist party and a majority of Ulster Unionists in the devolved Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont.
Writing on deadline, Donovan and I clashed frequently: I described our sources as "credible"; he vetoed that phrasing, saying that it suggested The Star was taking their side.
Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Green party's sole assembly member vetoed the bill by triggering a "petition of concert", which torpedoes any legislation that does not have sufficient cross-community/unionist-nationalist approval.
"The artists that vetoed this need to understand that most arts funding in the country comes from the government, and the government are the ones behind Manus Island," he told the Australian Financial Review.
But on Tuesday, Sinn Féin and the SDLP vetoed welfare legislation when it was brought to the floor of the assembly, plunging the devolved administration into jeopardy.
Any potential leftwing government will be highly constrained; its budget could be vetoed by the (Fidesz-staffed) budgetary council, upon which the (Fidesz-appointed) president can dissolve parliament.
In 1994, the former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene was widely considered the frontrunner for the presidency until his candidacy was vetoed by John Major.
Darling's camp had decided to focus their fire on Salmond's weakness on an independent Scotland's currency options, now that the UK parties had vetoed a currency union.
