Sentence examples for case a referendum from inspiring English sources

The prosecution could attempt to make the case a referendum on domestic violence, and thus try to intimidate a jury into making a popular decision.

So while the Fisher case has been billed as a referendum on affirmative action, its backers have significantly grander ambitions: They seek to make the case a referendum on the 14th Amendment itself.

In short, the case is a referendum on Casey, and is poised to be the most significant abortion case in decades.

Mr Straw favours first-past-the-post, although he accepts the case for a referendum to give it legitimacy.

It said the majority inappropriately sought to turn the case "into a referendum on the N.Y.P.D.'s policing tactics.

He said the bill's second reading at the beginning of July would be whipped and that the government believed there was no case for a referendum.

It is taken from something Cameron said to him in 2015, when asked if he could see the case against a referendum.

I followed in detail one sequence that began when the then Home Secretary, Michael Howard, innocently noted during an interview that there was a case for a referendum on the euro.

A few years later, I found another cause with the European Movement, set up on an all-party basis to make the case in a referendum for staying in the Common Market.

While they accept that their goal of repatriating powers is difficult for Cameron to achieve, they are likely to press the case for a referendum, arguing that the EU is a different club to the one the UK joined.

The haphazard way May's cabinet are handling Brexit makes the case for a referendum on the deal stronger each day, and we're glad to have growing cross-party support for this campaign".