referendumin a sentence
- Almost banning the death penalty through a popular referendum in an American state would have been unimaginable just a few years earlier.† (source)
- In a referendum of November 1983, the white electorate endorsedP.† (source)
- He had graduated from Drew, in New jersey; he held strong opinions on modem art, the upcoming nuclear referendum question in Maine, the films of Andy Warhol, and he took a double fault the way Tad took the news it was bedtime.† (source)
- The referendum sought to prevent state colleges and universities from offering reduced in-state tuition to undocumented residents who'd grown up in Arizona.† (source)
- In the final weeks of her life she was intensely involved in the pro-euro campaign preceding the Swedish referendum on the euro.† (source)
- As with all midterms, the votes being cast across the nation will be a referendum on Kennedy's policies and administration.† (source)
- Former foreign minister Sir William Temple says foreign ministers avoid matters taken ad referendum by tampering with the provinces and cities.† (source)
- I will even get myself an identity, many identities, in fact, and vote for it, if it ever comes to a referendum.† (source)
- Although last-minute maneuvers failed to admit Colorado over the President's veto (sparsely populated Colorado had rejected statehood in a referendum), an unexpected tragedy brought false tears and fresh hopes for a new vote, in Kansas.† (source)
- They got enough signatures to put a referendum on the state ballot.
- In 1960 the Government held a referendum which led to the establishment of the Republic.† (source)
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- The number of asylum seekers increased, and the resulting unemployment and backlash from local government prompted the city of Sjöbo to hold a referendum in 1998, where the population voted against accepting immigrants.† (source)
- The referendum had succeeded in driving Cristian out of school, but Cristian was just one of thousands of new freshman.† (source)
- No. Tooth paste, toothbrush, bicarbonate, Carborundum, initiative and referendum?† (source)
- The motto of the leading Republican paper of Missouri, Frank Blair's 6 The Illinois constitutional convention of 1847 had adopted and submitted to a popular referendum a provision that instructed the legislature to pass laws prohibiting the immigration of colored persons.† (source)
- All this was in June; and before long the question was submitted to a referendum in the unions, and the decision was for a strike.† (source)
- Of one thing I'm sure—Celtic you'll live and Celtic you'll die; so if you don't use heaven as a continual referendum for your ideas you'll find earth a continual recall to your ambitions.† (source)
- He has never heard of /direct primaries/, the /recall/ or the /initiative and referendum/.† (source)
- Foreign ministers, says Sir William Temple, who was himself a foreign minister, elude matters taken ad referendum, by tampering with the provinces and cities.† (source)
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