Assertion: veto | /r/HasProperty | power
Facets:
value: to stop an official action
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: As they ransacked the past for models they reluctantly concluded that for the President this meant the veto, a power that traces back to ancient times, to Sparta and to Rome.
text: A veto (Latin for "I forbid") is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.
text: Veto – a power granted to the head of the executive branch that allows him or her to nullify a law passed by the legislative branch.
text: The veto is a power the executive branch (president or governor) has over the legislative branch (Congress or state legislature).
text: veto (the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature))
text: Veto is the power to stop an action