Britain, France and the US proposed a rival resolution with the one-sided elements that provoked earlier Russian and Chinese vetoes – punishment of Assad if he did not comply, threats of new sanctions, no word of pressure on the opposition and veiled hints of eventual military force by referring to chapter seven of the UN charter.
Those vetoes, as we've said repeatedly, were highly regrettable, and place both Russia and China on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of the Syrian people.
"One of the key goals of the university is 'excellence in education': I don't think we accomplish this when an element of the student body believes the only appropriate tools they have when confronted with ideas and people they disagree with is to throw temper tantrums and employ hecklers' vetoes".
Some want to legitimise this encroachment, by giving the committees formal vetoes, an automatic right to parliamentary debates and more resources.
Indeed, euro-zone ministers have said they may just press ahead with their own FTT if they cannot win EU-wide agreement which could mean extra business for London from the likes of Frankfurt and Paris if Britain vetoes the idea.Die-hards may not care.
Environmentalists hate the idea, but if Mr Obama vetoes it, Republicans will accuse him of killing jobs.Not all conservatives share the optimists' vision.
Between Congress and the White House there are too many vetoes on what should be routine business: the president has one, as do the Senate majority, the Senate minority, the House and the speaker of the House (when he observes the Hastert rule, as the current one does).
Some immigration and asylum issues are no longer subject to national vetoes.
And since Mr Blix's every move will be subject to council members' vetoes, there is endless room for things to continue to go wrong.In this section Africa's many Pinochets-in-waiting How fast and how far?
It helped that several of Xiangcai Hefeng's managers had worked abroad, were used to the legalistic western culture, and agreed to put all commitments into writing, including vetoes for ABN Amro in such areas as portfolio and risk management, and compliance.Even when the relationship is this good, however, foreign banks and fund managers still need to take a leap of faith.
In 2007 the EU was poised to transfer a thicket of crime-fighting and policing laws from one section of the union's treaties (in which individual countries have national vetoes and ECJ judges may not meddle) to a section of the treaties governed by majority voting and ECJ oversight.
