A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action. In the most typical case, a president or monarch vetoes a bill to stop it from becoming...

The United Nations Security Council veto power is the power of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United...

Vető is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Tamás Vető (1935-), Hungarian-born Danish conductor Gábor Vető (1988-), Hungarian...

talks proved to be the veto rights of permanent members. The Soviet delegation argued that each nation should have an absolute veto that could block matters...

In the United States, the term "veto" is used to describe an action by which the president prevents an act passed by Congress from becoming law. This article...

dire political emergency or on advice of government. While the power to veto by withholding royal assent was once exercised often by European monarchs...

the president can use the veto power to prevent a bill passed by the Congress from becoming law. Congress can override the veto by a two-thirds vote of...

A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action...

The line-item veto, also called the partial veto, is a special form of veto power that authorizes a chief executive to reject particular provisions of...

In United States government, the line-item veto, or partial veto, is the power of an executive authority to nullify or cancel specific provisions of a...