sign a bill into law
sign an agreement into law

This is the ability to refuse to sign a bill into law.

Within a couple of days after the President signs a bill into law:

Instead, for spending and tax legislation, the President may cancel particular items within five days of signing a bill into law.

In 2009, Rhode Island signed a bill into law making prostitution a misdemeanor.

Last week, President Clinton signed a bill into law making it a crime to make indecent material available to children over computer networks.

President Bush signed a bill into law today strengthening protection for Federal workers who report Government wrongdoing.

If submitted by the Secretary of State, the monarch will, by convention, sign a bill into law.

Republican leaders questioned if the use of the Autopen met the constitutional requirements for signing a bill into law.

The departing governor did so last week by signing a bill into law that essentially saved bass fishing in New Jersey.

On June 22, 1874 President Grant, in an effort of reform, signed a bill into law that abolished the moiety contract system.

However, on April 23, 2009, Rell signed a bill into law providing for a gender neutral marriage statute.

He was a proponent of statehood and quickly signed a bill into law to authorize a state constitutional convention for southern Dakota Territory.

Ms. Calderón signed a bill into law this week authorizing the July 29 referendum, though it is now unclear whether that will go ahead.

The law provides that the President, after signing a bill into law, may "cancel" any part of it that appropriates money or authorizes entitlement programs.

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law in December 2010 which created a future pathway to allow homosexuals to serve in the military.

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman signed a bill into law yesterday that makes it a crime to spy on someone through the window of a private home.

New York State Governor Roswell P. Flower signed a bill into law forming the city.

The President may either sign a bill into law or veto it, sending a veto message with his objections back to the house that originated the bill.

Gov. George E. Pataki signed a bill into law last night that will soften the so-called Rockefeller drug laws, his office said.

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman signed a bill into law yesterday guaranteeing yearly increases in state aid to local municipalities based on the rate of inflation.

The process involved protracted battles over two legislative sessions and was settled when Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber signed a bill into law.

That means that Mr. Pataki, without having signed a bill into law, would be able to claim that his tax-cut pledge had been partly accomplished.

Finally, on February 9, 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill into law elevating the Department of Agriculture to Cabinet level.

On 9 July 2008, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal signed a bill into law making the fleur-de-lis an official symbol of the state.