Word: vetoing
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...proposals are adopted, the student-faculty committees would be given decision-making power, a step-up from the current advisory role they now serve. Under the proposal, the committee’s decision could be vetoed by the chair of the committee, but that veto could be overridden with a 2/3 vote...
...taken a moderate line on gun control, supporting citizens' right to own guns but issuing a 2004 veto of a bill that would have allowed Kansans to carry concealed weapons...
...sell to minors. In a state like Georgia, where more than two-thirds of residents say they'd like to be able to buy a six pack on the sabbath, Harp's efforts may just win his bill votes, even though Governor Sonny Perdue, a teetotaler, said he'd veto any bill that came across his desk...
...probably prove that you're not." Movie stars have projects built around them; Winslet seeks out movies in which she can serve a director or story by becoming an essential support beam in the film's overall architecture. Movie stars usually want more - more words, more screen time, more veto power; she wants less. When the playwright and screenwriter Doug Wright worked with her on Quills in 2000, he recalls, Winslet told him "with great tact, 'Doug, I'd never say a word against your writing, but this line? This one here? ... I don't have...
...visiting Fidel Castro in Cuba. Chávez, a left-wing nationalist, had yet to develop his gushing friendship with Castro, but like other leaders all over Latin America - even those who dislike the Cuban leader and his politics - he took umbrage at Washington's assumption that it could veto his itinerary...