Sentence examples for democratic referendum from inspiring English sources
Papandreou was forced to call off the democratic referendum.
The difference between an authoritarian plebiscite and a democratic referendum lies in the rules under which they are held.
"Having decisively lost a democratic referendum on independence, Alex Salmond is now suggesting the nationalists can ignore the sovereign will of the Scottish people," she said.
A thoroughly democratic referendum in France as good as kills constitutional changes which, defenders say, would have made the European Union more democratic.
"We have always said that we would have preferred a Scottish-type scenario, where we could negotiate with the state and hold a coordinated and democratic referendum.
"Furthermore, numerous press reports make it clear that the SNP wants to hold Ed Miliband to ransom to negotiate a chipping away of Scotland from the union – which the Scottish people voted against in a democratic referendum.
Although we will still block content based on standards and local laws, our hope is that this system of personal controls and democratic referenda should minimize restrictions on what we can share.
"I have sourced specific images of moments to do with democratic referendums, immigration, and colliding of groups and cultures," he says of his process.
But five months later, when the question was subjected to an arguably democratic process — a referendum — the people of California said No by more than half a million votes.
The nature of state-society relations (accommodation or repression), extent of direct democratic institutions (initiative, referendum, and recall), electoral system (majority or proportional), openness of policy-making processes, and access to political leaders significantly affect outcomes of advocacy network efforts.
As Marie-Louise Strӧm, my wife, observed in our family trip through Scotland in August before the referendum, democratic energy was everywhere -- and such energy was associated with the idea that "we can build the society we want".
