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Myanmar Meaning

အိမ်တွင်းစွန့်ပစ္စည်းများကို စွန့်ပစ်ရန် လက်ဆေး ကြွေဇလုံ၌ တပ်ဆင်ထားသည့် ကိရိယာ။

Definition

veto / 'vi:tǝƱ / n ( pl -oes ) ~ (on sth) ၁။ [C,U] တားဆီးပိတ္ပင္ ႏိုင္ခြင့္အာဏာ။ ဗီတိုအာဏာ။ use the presidential veto ❍ exercise the power/ right of veto. ၂။ [C] (ဗီတိုအာဏာ သံုး၍) တားျမစ္ျခင္း၊ ပယ္ခ်ျခင္း။ the government's veto on large-scale company mergers. v ( pres p vetoing ) ဗီတိုအာဏာသံုး၍ ပယ္ခ်သည္။ The President vetoed the tax cuts.

Examples

  1. ‘Mandela called on world leaders
  2. especially those with vetoes in the UN Security Council
  3. to oppose him.’
  4. ‘In some circumstances it has a veto on legislation.’
  5. ‘At a time of constitutional reform
  6. the provision giving the Prime Minister a veto of high-level appointments obviously cries out for change.’
  7. ‘When it comes to conflicts of interest among states holding veto power
  8. the Security Council is incapacitated.’
  9. ‘I can't recall a stupider proposal than a bill that was recently introduced to give Congress a veto power over Supreme Court decisions.’
  10. ‘From this perspective
  11. the U.S. Senate has a veto over treaties negotiated by the executive
  12. and constitutional courts have a veto over legislation.’
  13. ‘He will retain an effective veto over all government decisions through the establishment of a National Security Council
  14. over which he will preside.’
  15. ‘The council has some powers
  16. but the US proconsul
  17. Paul Bremer
  18. has a veto over its decisions.’
  19. ‘Britain also sought Swedish support at the recent Nice summit in defence of its national vetoes on tax and welfare policies.’
  20. ‘From his words
  21. other popular commentary at the time
  22. and the actions of the earliest presidents
  23. an image of the veto emerged as a constitutional tool intended for rare use.’
  24. ‘Unless something changes
  25. he will be the first full-term president in 175 years not to have exercised his Constitutional veto power.’
  26. ‘Clearly the present set-up gives the five major powers on the Security Council a veto on any decisions taken by UN member states.’
  27. ‘In all countries but one
  28. more people favour than oppose the idea of giving the UN Security Council the power to override the veto of a permanent member.’
  29. ‘If accepted
  30. DUP proposals would subject ministerial decisions to a veto by no more than thirty Assembly members
  31. a situation not followed elsewhere.’
  32. ‘In 1983
  33. the Supreme Court stunned Congress by declaring that the legislative veto was an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.’
  34. ‘Unfortunately
  35. President Carter's battles with Congress over legislative vetoes alienated many members.’
  36. ‘It had its own assembly and militia
  37. the power of veto over federal decisions and control of education and other public services.’
  38. ‘Governments can also refer decisions they oppose to the European Council
  39. where again they can apply the veto; and they can opt out of decisions when they wish to do so.’
  40. ‘I submit that part of the reason for that has been the ongoing existence of the veto in the Security Council.’
  41. ‘Three members of the Security Council with veto powers - China
  42. France and Russia - have all expressed opposition to the proposed resolution.’