veto power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvetoandpower
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veto
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈviː.təʊ/us/ˈviː.t̬oʊ/
an official power or right to refuse to accept or ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofvetoandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, the prime minister has agenda control over cabinet appointments, whereas the president hasvetopower.
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Grantingvetopower, however, entails the danger of a stalemate and thereby decreases rule efficiency.
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It would hardly be of any use against a nation withvetopower.
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In a sense, each actor has thevetopowerbecause repatriations are based on consensual decision-making.
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Vetopowerwithin the cartel, therefore, declines as the president's party obtains super-majoritarian numbers of seats.
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Indeed, the wish to avoid suchvetopowermay both contribute to surplus coalitions and to grand coalitions between major parties.
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Thisvetopoweralso applied to the subsequent decision to create permanent marketing boards under the government's jurisdiction.
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In many cases the party body had exclusive powers of appointment, while in others it hadvetopowerover nominations made by subordinate party or non-party bodies.
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What, then, made thevetopowerof the landed interest over land taxation so complete between 1906 and 1914, when it was not earlier or later?
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In our model, cabinet appointments are made through the interaction of a (prospective) prime minister with proposal power and a president with ex postvetopower.
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Transformation of the blue slip into avetopowerfor the minority would thus be a future and unintended consequence of an effort to improve control of the agenda.
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Instead, the transformation of the blue slip from advisory tool to potentialvetopowerwas a striking, yet unintended, consequence.
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Institutionalised rules about financial compensation affect the interests of municipalities either to make use of theirvetopoweror to comply with the central governments' policy.
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This declaration might have reduced the autonomous influence of municipalities significantly, but not strongly enough to deprive them of theirvetopower.
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This means that committees not only often re-write bills in their entirety, but they also havevetopowerover legislation within their jurisdiction.
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Here, political power is diffused by means of institutional separation and mutualvetopower, leading to deadlock and a restrictive effect.
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Taft'svetopowerwas wholly at his control, of course.
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Dispersion ofvetopowerthus created a distributive stalemate in which neither business nor the programme's clientele groups could solve its long-run problem by getting the other to pay.
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Likewise, providing the executive withvetopowerover legislation provides a check against social passion by furnishing the executive with the ability to strike down socially intemperate legislation.
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This emphasis on cabinet initiatives can be explained by the costs of drafting a bill and thevetopowerof the cabinet and the coalition parties.
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