The effect of local veto power has recently come under fire after a series of local projects were halted after years of delays.

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Nunn and Warner to the effect that a veto threat is not sufficient to ensure congressional support for large-scale, multi-year development and procurement programs.

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That is, in effect, a veto.

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Correspondents say the first effect of the American veto would be the end of the UN mission to train a new Bosnian police force.

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The order does not go into effect until April 19, and is subject to Presidential veto.

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Both countries have veto power in the Security Council and have opposed international efforts to effect change in Syria.

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But the complicating factor in all this is the Health Minister's statement to the effect that in the last resort, families would wield some sort of veto - but based on what?

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When Congress approved the line-item veto last year, Clinton and his Republican challenger, Bob Dole, agreed it would not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1997, taking it out of election-year politics.

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In effect it would lay out a path whereby Europe would become more integrated in many areas while leaving veto rights with member states in such matters as foreign policy, taxation and defense--and Europeans with a voice in making those decisions.

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