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.
Empires are formed from ethnic, cultural, national, and religious components. As such, determining which aspect to use to measure an empire is problematic. This is because the mentioned factors often overlap one another. However, the following largest Empires were determined following a methodology strictly based on total land area. 10. Portuguese Empire, Early 19th Century, 4.02 million square miles