(1) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(3) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(4) Results showed the greatest inhibition of noxious stimulus perception with Innovar-Vet, lesser inhibition with ketamine-xylazine and ketamine-diazepam, and the least obtunding of nociception with pentobarbital.
(5) Commonwealth annual funding for vocational education and training (VET) had increased by 25% in real terms since Labor came to office in 2007, amounting to more than $19bn, according to Rudd.
(6) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
(7) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
(8) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
(9) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(10) People from all countries nowadays go through a vetting process, particularly from parts of the worlds where there is political instability and violence, and are thoroughly checked.
(11) The faecal egg count depression (FECD) of febantel (Rintal vet.
(12) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(13) A business department spokesman said the government was not planning to put a duty on police to vet union social media, specifically Twitter, during industrial action.
(14) The purpose of this study is to present measurement of ventilatory threshold (VeT) and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) in a large group of predominantly older subjects using a bicycle ergometer and an automated measuring system.
(15) The official said the department does not vet US citizens' private travel to North Korea.
(16) I do feel the best interest of the country and the party and Tony Abbott are served by giving him the space to demonstrate that he’s listened to concerns and he’s acting and doing the appropriate thing to get the country back into a more stable political position.” Abbott told cabinet on Wednesday that he would make changes about the extent to which proposed staffing appointments had to go to the so-called “star chamber” for vetting, and the extent to which his office had to approve travel.
(17) Besides one group of control pigs, one group of pigs were pretreated with alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) combined with selenium (Tokosel Vet) injected i.m.
(18) For David Cameron to appoint Coulson to Downing Street , bypassing all the usual vetting procedures, casts grave doubt over his judgment.
(19) What she means, of course, is that Sarah Palin needs to vet them, instead.
(20) This issue was also raised in March by its new chairman, Lord Chris Patten, during a pre-appointment vetting process conducted by the culture media and sport committee.
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.