Mr. Bush has also used the veto to reject measures deemed unwise or poorly drawn - occasionally to good effect.

The prisoners were held in custody for a time, but it was deemed unwise to punish them, so that they were finally pardoned and dismissed from the army.

He noted that the plan had already made changes to features deemed unwise, recently eliminating the option of hardship withdrawal.

It was deemed unwise to risk shipping the weapons directly along the Western Track, even during the Truce.

For this reason, it was deemed unwise to gamble on Ballack being fit at some point.

Reclassifying or decriminalising drugs such as cannabis, for instance, is deemed unwise because it would "give the wrong signals".

But reducing security was deemed unwise.

And efforts to contact hit men to inquire about personal hygiene were deemed unwise; none had publicists.

But Philharmonia's music director, Richard Kapp, explained from the stage that the attempt to mount that work on a small stage was ultimately deemed unwise.

While ceding to the executive the power to conduct arms transfers, Congress reserved the power to stop sales it deemed unwise.