plebiscite

How To Use plebiscite In A Sentence

• This is why Labor will hold a series of plebiscites: direct voting to involve the Australian people at every stage of the process.
• The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by plebiscite.
• The leading business association even advocated a ‘no’ vote in the 1999 plebiscite on the new constitution.
• Councillors may turn the question over to the general public and use it as a plebiscite question during the next municipal election in the fall.
• For years referenda were discredited in the public mind by plebiscites organized by totalitarian governments which inevitably produced a gratifying majority.
• He called all Imams and preachers to direct and urge people to participate in the plebiscite on the permanent constitution and participate in the coming elections.
• Mr Mann insists that Punjab must be a homeland for the Sikhs, brought into being by a UN-supervised plebiscite.
• It has been surmised that some of the so-called secessionists would continue to refer to the resolution to vindicate their demand for a plebiscite in the disputed state.
• The deal now faces a possible plebiscite, with activists arguing that it erodes democratic accountability and empowers big business. Times, Sunday Times
• This involves not one but three votes in two plebiscites and one federal referendum - and heaven knows how many state votes.