Word: overridden
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...working days to veto it, says the Constitution. He can do so in two ways: 1) he can return the measure to Congress unsigned; or 2) if Congress has adjourned, he can do nothing, exercising the pocket veto. Unlike the normal veto, the pocket veto cannot be overridden by a two-thirds vote. President Reagan tried one last November. The measure in question was a bill declaring that there should be no military aid to El Salvador unless the President could report improvements in that nation's human rights record...
...eight such checks and balances in the Constitution, all meant to ensure that no one branch of Government (nor even a volatile citizenry) could ever impose a tyranny on its own. Thus Congress legislates, but the President may veto bills sent to him, and his veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote of Congress...
...hour of need, Roberts was not found wanting. Money started to pour in after the evangelist told of a visitation by a 900-ft.-tall Jesus who said, "I told you I would speak to your partners and through them I would build it." And objections were overridden after state officials were hit with thousands of letters from Roberts' followers. The evangelist says he persisted in the four-year effort because if he did not build the City of Faith, "I would be disobedient...
...Edward J. King yesterday vetoed the bottle-recycling bill, calling it a costly addition to government regulation, but legislative supporters of the bill said yesterday it could be overridden...
...budget cuts Reagan sought, slashing urban mass transit subsidies, long-term unemployment compensation and milk for nursing mothers, among many other programs. But the majority of Democrats fought hard to limit reductions in some major "entitlement" programs, which provide benefits for anyone who meets certain qualifications. The defenders were overridden by a coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats on these major points...