referendum

How To Use referendum In A Sentence

• Now, moreover, with the nation in an economic downturn, is not the time to assert the urgency of passing referendum legislation.
• Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
• Their cunning plan was to turn the by-election into a referendum on the EU. Times, Sunday Times
• EU Referendum: Saddam "the federator of Europe" skip to main | skip to sidebar Saddam "the federator of Europe"
• On Nov. 17, Havel broadcast his proposed amendments to the referendum law and the existing Constitution.
• Still, the SNP are understandably cock-a-hoop and, again unsurprisingly, SNP bloggers are urging the party on to 2010 and their plans for an independence referendum. The View from the North
• The future of the referendum was in doubt last night as the Tánaiste signalled it would not go ahead without broad support.
• Is it more truly democratic to hold a referendum?
• Compare and contrast with The Daily Telegraph leader, headed: "We won't be fooled out of our referendum" – "bamboozled" in the print edition. Archive 2007-06-01
• The move will trigger another referendum on the issue. Times, Sunday Times