In a sentence
Six example sentences with veto, each labelled with its topic.
The governor's veto sent the transit bill back to a legislature short of the two-thirds needed to override it.
Politics
A single member's veto in the council can stall a zoning change for an entire calendar year.
Law
The founders gave their earliest investor a veto over any sale, a clause that haunted them four years later.
Startups
A single noble's veto could dissolve the Polish parliament, and rivals used that rule to paralyze the state for a century.
History
The founder kept a veto over any change to the product name, and used it exactly once in twenty years.
Business
His contract gave him a veto over trades, so the front office had to sell him on the move before announcing it.
Basketball
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