As head of state, the monarch holds reserve powers to reject laws, to dissolve Parliament or to reject requests for dissolutions, and to appoint prime ministers in the event of a hung Parliament.
Peers voted by 246 to 230, majority of 16, to reject plans to cut some of the benefits given to children on the lower rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), during third reading of the Welfare Reform Bill on 31 January 2012.
Members of the European Parliament backed a resolution which urged member states to reject changes to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) which would "negatively impact the internet, its architecture, operations, content and security, business relations, internet governance and the free flow of information online".
Unions representing most ambulance staff recently voted to reject a deal to resolve the dispute.
However, States members decided by 29 votes to 19 to reject her attempt to block the development.
Describing why the FDA decided to reject what seemed to be a qualified application will help everyone.
Councillors are being advised to reject an attempt to change conditions imposed on plans for a wind farm.
Greenlight Capital's Einhorn urged Apple shareholders to reject a bid to eliminate preferred stock from the company charter.
Tewkesbury Borough Council and the Forest of Dean District Council have already voted to reject the proposal to cull badgers on council land.
This was less a conference speech and more a national pep talk - a call to reject pessimism and to embrace the British spirit.
McCain also asked the audience to forgive him for his absence from last year's CPAC, when he was the only major Republican candidate to reject an invitation to speak at the conference.
There has also been disappointing news for the reserve side after members of the Anglian Combination league voted to reject their entry to the Premier Division, instead they will return to the United Counties League taking a place in Reserve Division Two.
It is not uncommon for the USPTO to reject a patent only to subsequently reinstate it.
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Conference has yet to reject a proposal put to it by the NPF.
To select the other booming cities, we had to reject some that appear to be bouncing off the bottom instead of showing steady growth.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has side-stepped questions on the Bill's future if the Lords were to reject when it returns to them later in the year.
It is the context in which both Senators Obama and Clinton are pledging not to reject free trade but to temper aspects of treaties, such as Nafta, which - according to them - hurt American interests and cost Americans jobs.
The parliament voted to reject the Yeltsin decree and to install one of their own, Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, in his stead as president.
To reject this technology will be to marginalize and blindfold ourselves.
If God does nothing so that we humans might freely display our own charitable virtue, Christians ought to reject compulsion when it comes to transfers of wealth.
At the end of the debate, MPs voted to reject a Labour amendment declining to give the bill a second reading by 330 votes to 195, a government majority of 135.
Now, Kenyans must make a deliberate and difficult choice -- to reject the divisive politics, to reconcile their communities, to acknowledge the injustice of the past so you do not harbor deep-seated resentment in the future.
The Bush administration is likely to reject any formal trade link to labour standards, but it may be forced to extend such conditions which already exist in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to other countries.
We reject calls to raise taxes, but revenue nevertheless remains steady under our budget because we close special-interest loopholes.
And we can all reject attempts to discredit evidence that challenges our beliefs.
From early childhood onward, boys learn to reject anything pink or feminine, to avoid the possibility of peer disapproval or ridicule.
Authors then become less able to sell controversial work to publishers, who reject them due to anticipated challenges in selling the book.
Pro-choice campaigners reject changes to the proposal that forces women to justify before a panel of experts why they wish a termination.
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