Is it conceivable that the SNP could exercise a veto over the transfer of new tax powers to Holyrood?
The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views... and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors.
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Under the Line Item Veto Act, Congress had to help the president in his exercise of his veto by highlighting, in the budget bill, tax breaks that benefited fewer than 101 people.
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, who backed publication on public interest grounds, said the exercise of a veto over standard FOI procedures must be "exceptional".
The Center for Security Policy urges President Bush not to exercise his pocket veto by signing the Pelosi legislation prior to midnight Saturday.
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Secretary General and his designees have been permitted by the Clinton Administration to make operational decisions about and to exercise a veto over the use of U.S. and NATO military assets.
Secretary General and his designees have been permitted by the Clinton Administration to make operational decisions about -- and to exercise a veto over -- the use of U.S. and NATO military assets.
Unlike in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, the Security Council cannot force an independent tribunal on Phnom Penh because China would likely exercise its veto, arguing that the matter is Cambodia's internal affair.
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Frail though he is, Fidel Castro will continue to exercise a veto power over the pace and direction of change in Cuba.
There could be no greater justification for senators to exercise their veto over treaties than the cause of protecting the individual liberties of Americans including the right to bear arms.
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Congress should not sanction this ploy, and if it does, President Bush should dust off that so far unused tool, the veto, and actually exercise it.
In Massachusetts, the governor can exercise a line-item veto, but only for spending bills.
President Obama today announced his intentions to exercise a pocket veto on legislation designed to clarify the foreclosure process to the benefit of lenders.
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When the U.S. wanted to intervene in Kosovo in 1999, it ignored the UN after the Russians made it clear they would exercise their veto.
Instead, if President Bush agrees to some deal with Vladimir Putin that allows the latter to exercise what would amount to a continuing veto power over U.S. missile defenses, he will simply assure that the deployment of American anti- missile systems occurs after we need them -- probably after some place we care about, perhaps in this country, perhaps overseas, has been destroyed by a missile attack.
This experience suggests that, if in the future as in the past, we accord Russia a de facto veto over our missile defense programs, they will happily exercise it.
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