8 sentences with 'veto'
Example sentences and phrases with the word veto and other words derived from it.
• « The veto on eating hoofed animals was to avoid the fatal contagion of trichinosis, a disease typical of the herd of pigs that accompanied the Semitic tribes of the Middle East. »
• « John Adams drafted much of the Massachusetts constitution of 1780, which reflected his fear of too much democracy. He created two legislative chambers, one upper and one lower, and a strong governor with broad veto powers. »
• « When the bill to re-charter the bank was passed and reached President Jackson, he used his executive authority to veto the measure. »
• « Jackson's veto was only part of the war against the "monster bank". In 1833, the president withdrew deposits from the national bank and placed them in state banks. »
• « Jackson's veto of the bank and his Specie Circular helped galvanize opposition forces into a new political party, the Whigs, a faction that began to form in 1834. »
• « Masters sometimes allowed slaves to choose their own partners, but they could also veto a union. »
• « He advanced the idea of a concurrent majority, a majority of a separate region (otherwise in the minority of the nation) with the power to veto or overrule legislation introduced by a hostile majority. »