单词 | veto-wielding |
释义 | > as lemmasveto-wielding C2. Limitative and objective, as veto-proof, veto-wielding adjs., etc. ΚΠ 1867 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 16 Jan. 1/1 There seems to be really no obstacle which the omnipotence of a veto-proof Congress may not overcome. 1915 S. J. Lubin in F. B. Lenz Immigration 63 The literacy test fails to impress favorably our veto-wielding Presidents, to say nothing of the steamship lobby and the foreign national lobbies. 1947 Time 3 Mar. 109/1 The Assembly..called on veto-wielding powers to use restraint. 1959 Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 10 The Prime Minister..proposed breaking the existing deadlock over a control system by a ‘quota’ plan limiting the number of veto-free inspections per year. 1972 National Observer (U.S.) 16 Sept. 2/5 The debt-limit extension, veto-proof because of its importance, could become a Christmas tree of Democratic proposals. 1990 N. D. White United Nations & Maintenance Internat. Peace ii. Introd. 95 The smaller States insisted that all the power should not be..in the hands of the veto-wielding powers. 2011 New Yorker 18 Apr. 46/1 In January of this year, the President signed a politically veto-proof defense-appropriation bill. < as lemmas |
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