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Example sentences for "vetoed"

Lexicographically close words:
veteris; vetero; veterum; vether; veto; vetoes; vetoing; vettura; vetturino; vetus
  1. As a sort of final stroke the President vetoed the bill concerning the transfer of the control of the colored schools in the District of Columbia, and the bill for raising the duties on imported copper and copper ores.

  2. The repealing bill was vetoed by the President on the 25th of March, but it was immediately repassed by the majority necessary to override the veto, repassed without the slightest regard to the President's very sound and convincing objections.

  3. This bill was framed with the purpose in view of avoiding those features of the bill, successfully vetoed by the President on February 19th preceding, {88} which had influenced certain Republicans to sustain the President's veto.

  4. Cleveland took the stand that, unless the soldier had been disabled by the war, he had no just claim to government support, and he vetoed scores of private pension bills, many of which were shown to be fraudulent.

  5. Hughes may be the easiest man to beat, after all, because he vetoed the Income tax amendment in New York, a two-cent fare bill, and other things which are pretty popular.

  6. Lansing suggested a joint Note, but the President vetoed this idea, wanting us to take the initiative.

  7. Horace Austin, vetoed the bill, saying it was not passed in good faith, and that the submission of the question at that time would be premature.

  8. They vetoed Macedonia's application to become the centre of the reconstruction of Kosovo and then proceeded to propose Thessalonica (Saloniki) - a proposal adopted by the EU.

  9. Britain, France and Italy planned to partition it, Wilson vetoed it and that was the end of the plan and the beginning of Albania.

  10. On the 19th he vetoed it--rehearsing the objections he had repeatedly stated on the same issues.

  11. President Hayes vetoed the bill rather upon the ground of the abrogation of a treaty without notice, than upon any discussion as to the effects of Chinese labor.

  12. It was a wise move all right, an' I said so; but when he wanted me to help trail 'em, I vetoed it.

  13. The bill was then vetoed by Governor Hancock, though one day too late, and so it was saved.

  14. The bill was vetoed by the governor in council.

  15. But the council vetoed this bill as too wholesale in its operation, for it would have left some districts without voters enough to hold an election.

  16. Government vetoed the Belgian coast project, Lord French declares that two or three months later, viz.

  17. Whatever they did could be vetoed by the governors, and no bill could be passed over the veto.

  18. The House accepted the Senate amendment, and when Hayes vetoed the bill Congress passed it over his veto and the "Bland-Allison Bill" became a law in 1878.

  19. But when the bill went to Jackson for his signature, he vetoed it, and, as its friends had not enough votes to pass the bill over the veto, the Bank was not rechartered.

  20. Mr. President, had the Senator from Ohio occupied the position which is occupied by President Johnson, in my judgment, he would have vetoed the Civil Rights Bill.

  21. To enable the Montana and New York Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company to purchase a certain amount of the public lands not now in market; vetoed June, 1866.

  22. For the admission of the State of Colorado into the Union; vetoed May, 1866.

  23. In 1871 a bill was passed repealing the suffrage act, but was vetoed by the Governor, on the ground that, having been admitted, it must be given a fair trial.

  24. Footnote 210: Valentinian had resumed those temple revenues which had been restored by Julian, but went no further, though he vetoed the acquisition of legacies by his own church.

  25. Footnote 41: The demand for the admission of plebeians to the consulate was thus met on the patrician plea that religion vetoed it.

  26. The whigs, immediately upon coming into power, passed a bill to establish a United States Bank, but it was vetoed by Tyler, to the great disgust of the men who had elected him.

  27. During his first term, Jackson vetoed a bill renewing the charter of the United States Bank.

  28. What President vetoed the measures of the party which elected him to office?

  29. This consisted in enacting a law which vetoed all suits for the recovery of interest, cancelled all mortgages, and interdicted the pledging of military men's property.

  30. In the middle of the thirteenth century, they went so far as to interdict the brewing of sake throughout the empire, and another ordinance vetoed the serving of cakes at meals.

  31. In 1789, we find him legislating against the multiplication of brothels, and, two years later, he vetoed mixed bathing of men and women.

  32. It might meet and go through the form of passing such measures as it saw fit, but if the measures so passed were not acceptable to the Legislative and Executive Councils they were contumeliously vetoed when they reached the Upper House.

  33. The Legislative Council interposed its dead weight, and vetoed one bill after another sent up by the Assembly.

  34. With every evidence of a strong Southern secession from his party, with Clay and Webster leading the solid ranks of the East, it did seem that Jackson would fail if he vetoed the bill passed by great majorities in both Senate and House.

  35. The President feared the effect of this, and vetoed a bill to that effect; he even proposed that the Federal Government should buy stock in all the railway corporations in order that these growing monopolies be duly restrained.

  36. Polk accepted their view and vetoed the bill.

  37. A proposal for the necessary constitutional change was vetoed by Governor Nicholls.

  38. A bill prohibiting such immigration for twenty years was vetoed by President Arthur, but another reducing the period to ten years became law in 1882.

  39. Till the Americans vetoed the practice, the Igorrotes were "head hunters.

  40. Johnson vetoed it, and it was carried by both Houses over his veto.

  41. It was immediately vetoed by the President.

  42. The charge was true so far at any rate as Virginia was concerned, for both that State and its neighbour, Maryland, had passed laws against the traffic and had seen them vetoed by the Crown.

  43. The Government of Pretoria, however, growing anxious at the presence of British troops elsewhere, vetoed a promising enterprise and recalled him.

  44. After Johnson became President he adhered to that plan until Johnson vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights Bills.

  45. But he would not have vetoed the bill on grounds of expediency merely.

  46. He vetoed it on grounds of inexpediency and unconstitutionality.

  47. Geary, Walker's predecessor in office, had vetoed the bill calling the convention, because it contained no clause requiring submission of the constitution to the people; but it had been passed over his veto.

  48. Trumbull was confident that the Supreme Court would hold that the lower court had no such jurisdiction, in which case the appeal would fail and the bill vetoed by the President would be nugatory as to McCardle.

  49. It was twice vetoed by President Buchanan, who had at his back all the pro-slavery doctrinaires of his time.

  50. The Public Fear of Johnson President Johnson in every case promptly vetoed the bills objectionable to him or fulminated his protests against what he considered unwarrantable encroachments upon his constitutional prerogatives.

  51. He also vetoed a second Freedmen's Bureau bill in which some of the provisions he had objected to in his veto of the first were remedied.


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