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.
How long did it take to build the Empire State Building? It took 410 days, which is one year and 45 days to build the empire state building. That was over 200,000 hours of labor, during the course of roughly 14 months, to build whatâ¦ was the tallest building at that time. 21 people found this useful.