(v. t.) To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.
(v. t.) To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.
(v. t.) To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.
(v. t.) To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
(v. i.) To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
(8) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(9) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(10) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
(13) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(14) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.
(15) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
(16) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
(17) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(18) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(19) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(20) It could bring down the prime minister, though he denies it.
Veto
Definition:
(n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
(n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
(n.) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.
(n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.
(v. t.) To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
(2) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
(3) (c) A possible contribution of veto cells should be considered in several protocols in which donor hemopoetic cells were used in conjunction with CD4-specific antibodies to induce transplantation tolerance.
(4) After the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, threatened to veto a deal with Turkey, a reference to media freedom was added to the final summit statement.
(5) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
(6) These cells have been referred to as veto cells and are thought to play a role in maintaining self-tolerance.
(7) This was unacceptable to everyone since it gave the UK a veto over reinstating the arms ban.
(8) When Contostavlos wanted to stay an extra night at the luxury Las Vegas hotel, he told the court, his editors vetoed it.
(9) It established a pattern that would hold for the next five years: to call the effort irresponsible, but then – sometimes after giving an actual veto – to sign the bill rather than inviting the obvious attacks that he was holding US troops hostage to his Guantánamo closure pledge.
(10) That would neatly end the “fellow traveller” veto, by putting both of the EU’s rogue states in special measures.
(11) David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change , had been proposed for the post and is understood to have had the backing of Ed Davey, the Lib Dem energy and climate secretary, but his appointment was vetoed by Downing Street.
(12) In public, the government claims it supports onshore wind energy as long as communities have more power of veto over unwanted developments.
(13) The distance to the original venue was around 50 miles and the manager, who was unhappy with the scale of travel on last summer’s US tour, vetoed having to make the round trip.
(14) The White House is on the verge of a dramatic political victory in Congress after a flurry of last-minute endorsements for its Iran nuclear deal put Democrats within sight of enough votes to spare Barack Obama from needing to veto a motion of disapproval from Congress.
(15) There will also be proposals to elect select committee chairs and remove the executive veto over private members' bills, and new powers for backbenchers to put issues to the vote in the Commons.
(16) The United Nations security council has adopted a landmark resolution demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement in the occupied territories after Barack Obama’s administration refused to veto the resolution.
(17) Three Republican Arizona state senators who voted for a bill allowing business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to refuse service to gay people sent a letter to governor Jan Brewer on Monday urging her to veto the legislation.
(18) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
(19) Northern Ireland is the only remaining part of the UK where same-sex marriage is not legal after the DUP used a controversial veto mechanism to block any change to legislation.
(20) On Sunday, he wrote jointly with Gove in the Telegraph that the prime minister had put the British economy in “severe danger” by giving away a UK veto during talks in Brussels earlier this year.