Sentence examples for a referendum against from inspiring English sources

This was a referendum against Musharraf".

In 2012 they voted in a referendum against having anything at all to do with Kosovo.

Importantly for Miliband, 45% of Labour supporters back a referendum against just 36% who oppose it.

Laws pending in Slovenia are also expected to come into effect to legalise same-sex marriage, after a referendum against the bill.

But as Mr. Carville knows better than anyone, having won a referendum against George H.W. Bush 19 years ago, that someone can only be the president himself.

"I don't want to pay tax so people throw a referendum against me," said Iranian refugee Behruz, 31, who has lived in Hungary for the past five years.

The Colombian government blamed the leftist FARC guerrillas; the FARC denied it, saying the abduction was carried out by men in military intelligence.See article: Child combatants in ColombiaVenezuela's election board, which had been edging closer to the government, turned down a petition for a recall referendum against President Hugo Chávez.

In a brief ceremony in front of parliament in Berne, two small rightwing parties and other anti-European groups handed in a petition with some 70,000 signatures - more than enough to force a referendum - against a package of bilateral accords between Switzerland and the EU.

Nonetheless, the Northern League held an unofficial referendum against a mosque in the small town.

Venezuela's elections council has said it will begin a process of validating signatures of citizens seeking a recall referendum against the president, Nicolás Maduro, a small step in the opposition's effort to remove a deeply unpopular leader.

But last weekend Venezuelans finally got the opportunity to sign an officially-recognised petition for a recall referendum against Hugo Chávez, their controversial leftist president.