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And Obama threatened to Veto is because it had extra spending in it he didn't want.
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White House Opposes Aeronautics, Education, Science, increases - threatens Veto is the next entry in this blog.
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A key component of our relationship is something we call the Veto System: basically, whenever we have to make a decision together about anything, whether it's going to a dinner party or buying a new lamp, we both have to agree to it.
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During his two terms as governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson got the nickname "Governor Veto" as he vetoed 750 bills sent to him by the legislature.
David Boaz: Governor Veto David Boaz 2011
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During his two terms as governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson got the nickname "Governor Veto" as he vetoed 750 bills sent to him by the legislature.
David Boaz: Governor Veto David Boaz 2011
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For the so-called Veto, occasionally exercised in the past by the Catholic Powers (Spain, Austria, France), see RIGHT OF EXCLUSION.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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In Scotland the system of private patronage in the Established Kirk had become very unpopular, the Act.of Anne in favour of the nomination by lay patrons, and the control given to the Law Courts over the revising action of the Presbytery being ultimately modified by a declaration of the General Assembly known as the Veto Act. But it was decided in what was called the Strathbogie case that the veto was illusory, the disruption of the old Kirk followed, and on 18th May Dr
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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Other friends and acquaintances — his old "Veto" collaborator Theodore Sedgwick III and, most grievously, his grandson Alfred Godwin, who died in February 1859 — were joining that "innumerable caravan," as Bryant had written in "Thanatopsis."
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I'm now calling Ben "Veto" because he tries to veto all of my good ideas.
dizzy from damask 2007
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"Veto" certainly a four-letter word for the French, Chinese, Germans and Russians.
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