Sentence examples for hold a plebiscite from inspiring English sources

It promised to hold a plebiscite, a promise never kept.

It is unclear where the money to hold a plebiscite would come from.

Coalition: The government has promised to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage.

The Coalition government's policy is to hold a plebiscite on marriage equality after the next election.

The drumbeats from the opposition Labour Party that it, too, would hold a plebiscite are becoming louder.

The map reflects unfulfilled pledges made by India and Pakistan in 1948 and 1949 to hold a plebiscite there.

RIO DE JANEIRO — First she wanted to convoke a constitutional assembly, then she favored holding a plebiscite.

When General Pinochet held a plebiscite in 1988, he and his acolytes could not conceive of losing.

Given all this, Clegg may well be right not to make holding a plebiscite itself a red line.

Firstly, exercising direct democracy through the holding a plebiscite is a rare event in Canada, even more so for a project over which the district actually has no jurisdiction even though Kitimat is the proposed pipeline's terminus.

Brazil held a plebiscite on January 6 , 1963 and, by a margin of more than five to one, the national electorate gave Goulart full presidential powers.