Sentence examples for decide by referendum from inspiring English sources

This weekend, its people will decide, by referendum, whether to accept an imperfect but workable new constitution.

Voters in each region will decide by referendum whether to approve a one-cent increase in the sales-tax to pay for those regional projects.

If Blair fulfills his promises, the British electorate as a whole will decide by referendum whether future Parliaments should be chosen by some form of proportional representation rather than by the system of winner-take-all single-member districts.

The plan would reinstate the tax in question, called the occupational tax, but expand it to include professionals who were previously exempted and allow voters to decide by referendum in 2012 whether to continue the tax or phase it out over five years.

The Saarland temporarily became a protectorate of France, under the condition that its residents would later decide by referendum which country to join.

Marijuana for medicinal purposes should not be decided by referendum.

In the Swiss version of democracy, almost every public issue is decided by referendum.

All three levels of government have taxation powers and provisions for issues to be decided by referendum.

Even Governor Christie felt the need to soften his veto threat by saying that this sort of thing should be decided by referendum.

She said: "I'm calling for a devolution where we have everything decided by referendum and a government like the government of Switzerland.

Instead, Mr. Christie has argued that voters should decide the issue of same-sex marriage in a ballot question, but Democratic legislators say that civil rights should not be decided by referendum.