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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
veto .
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Examples
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(Schwarzenegger time and time again vetoed a fair and compromising budget which would have saved thousands of jobs)
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Jim Doyle again vetoed a bill that would require voters to show a photo ID before casting a ballot.
Sound Politics: Are Anti-Bush Moonbats The GOP's Best Friends? 2006
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Jerry Brown, who had promised not to sign a budget with "gimmicks," kept his word and vetoed the bill.
California Budget Battle Inches Forward Allysia Finley 2011
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Jerry Brown, who had promised not to sign a budget with "gimmicks," kept his word and vetoed the bill.
California Budget Battle Inches Forward Allysia Finley 2011
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R.I. legislator to reword vetoed probation violation bill
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The film, which examines US healthcare through comparisons with some countries' publicly funded systems, including Cuba's, was in fact shown in film theatres throughout the island and on national TV Cuba 'vetoed' healthcare film, 18 December, page 7.
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This comes after Prime Minister Maliki "vetoed" certain security tactics the U.S. army was employing in Baghdad.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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Political scientist Hilal Khashan said Washington had "vetoed" the Saudi-Syrian initiative and there was little prospect of a new government being formed quickly.
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Washington had "vetoed" the Saudi-Syrian initiative and there was little prospect of a new government being formed quickly.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Washington had "vetoed" the Saudi-Syrian initiative and there was little prospect of a new government being formed quickly.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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