veto definition. The power of a president or governor to reject a bill proposed by a legislature by refusing to sign it into law. The president or governor actually writes the word veto (Latin for âI forbidâ) on the bill and sends it back to the legislature with a statement of his or her objections.
Over the course of the construction of the Empire State Building, five workers died. One worker was hit by a vehicle; a second fell from an elevator shaft; a third was struck â¦and killed by a hoist; a fourth died in a blast area; and a fifth died falling off a scaffold.
â¢ The building weighs 365,000 tons and its volume is 37 million cubic feet. â¢ The exterior of the Empire State Building is composed of 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone. and granite, 10 million bricks and 730 tons of aluminum and stainless steel. â¢ The Empire State Building is currently undergoing one of the worldâs largest elevator.