Sentence examples for by plebiscite from inspiring English sources

In practice, he is ruling by plebiscite.

The border was redrawn by plebiscite in 1920.

Not many people want government by plebiscite, certainly.

A total revision of the constitution must be approved by plebiscite.

"I still have a job, I'm not creating a budget by plebiscite," Mr. Nenshi told me.

Sad but true: even in a democracy, rulemaking can't be done by plebiscite, online or off.

"Only the Third Reich and other tyrannies decided policies by plebiscites and generally no good came from them," the narrator reminds the inhabitants of post-referendum Britain.

Or the history that Amar and Hirsch want to foist on us: a political system dominated by plebiscites, juries and militias.

Last year the successful Liberal candidate in the West Australian Canning byelection, Andrew Hastie, also said he would not be bound by a plebiscite but by the way his electorate voted.

Prior to that time, a single candidate had been chosen by the legislature and then confirmed by national plebiscite.

Thanks to a new cross-party agreement, that promise now seems close to being fulfilled.The constitution, written by General Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship, was approved by a plebiscite in 1980, but its legitimacy was as thin as the transparent voting papers used in the plebiscite, and its intentions were just as undemocratic.