How bitterly these vetoes were resented in Virginia is shown by a statement of Thomas Jefferson in his "A Summary View of the Rights of British America," written in 1774.
By President Buchanan, vetoes of an act granting lands for agricultural purposes; of two acts relating to internal improvements, and of a homestead act.
But if we examine the two vetoes we shall see that his is really much more of a pure veto than mine.
They desired the freedoms of democracy, but also all the vetoes of democracy.
Some of his vetoes are highly interesting, and indicate independence of character and that he was not always controlled by mere party politics.
But I am, nevertheless, not willing to join those who seem more desirous to make out a case against the President, than of serving their country to the extent of their ability, vetoes notwithstanding.
The provision that the sun shall each day rise and run its accustomed rounds is a self-executing provision, until some Joshua vetoes this divine right of the sun.
At the election of the military tribunes during that year, Licinius and Sextius interposed[10] their vetoes and prevented a vote being taken.
Six tribunes were bought over by the caresses, flatteries, and money of the patricians and opposed their vetoes to their colleagues who were thus compelled to retire.
War was threatening,[11] and in order to go to the assistance of their allies Licinius and Sextius withdrew their vetoes and ceased their opposition for a time.
We denounce the hostile spirit of President Cleveland in his numerous vetoes of measures for pension relief, and the action of the Democratic House of Representatives in refusing even a consideration of general pension legislation.
Meanwhile the President had continued to ply the Congress with his vetoes and messages and to address the country with his proclamations.
On the same day that the vetoes of the Reconstruction bill and the Tenure-of-Office bill were sent to Congress, this body passed a bill supplementary to the first measure.
The vetoes of these bills were sent to Congress on the same day, March 2d.
All they need to be free and hearty again in the exercise of their birthright is that these fastidiousvetoes should be swept away.
No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse.
The procession of vetoes upon the acts of the Assembly resumed its familiar and hateful march.
His vetoes are more numerous than those of any other Chief Executive, amounting within the four years to over three hundred, or more than twice the number in the aggregate of all his predecessors.
These vetoes relate to almost all subjects of legislation, but mainly to pension cases and bills providing for the erection of public buildings throughout the country.
In July, 1856, he said that he had for eleven years maintained the vetoes of Mr. Polk.
In vain was the ownership of lands by powerful nobles interdicted, and in vain its purchase by provincial governors: the metropolis had no power to enforce its vetoes in the provinces, and the provincials ignored them.
He persevered in his pensionvetoes without making any movement towards a change of system, and the only permanent effect of his crusade was an alteration of procedure on the part of Congress in order to evade the veto power.
The respite from official cares was brief; on June 8th, the couple returned to Washington and some of the most pugnacious of the pension vetoes were sent to Congress soon after.
The protests of the President were shown to lack popular support, and his vetoes in the coming sessions were to be considered as merely one necessary step in the legislative formality of passing a bill.
We have noticed the wide divergence between the ideas of Johnson and those of the Republican party, and have seen that the whole program was carried over the vetoes of the President by the overwhelming Republican majority.
The arbitrary acts of Congress, passed by the radicals over the unvarying vetoes of Johnson, find little sanction in the Constitution, but it is to be expected that the laws should suffer in a time of war.
The vetoes began when Johnson refused his consent to the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Bills.
For if no one vetoes it, what course can be safer?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vetoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
