Sentence examples for initiative proposition from inspiring English sources

The initiative, Proposition 45, was thrashed, 42percentt in favor and 58percentt opposed.

This last initiative, Proposition 49, necessitated some five hundred million dollars a year in new expenditures while providing no new revenues to pay for them.

After a trial judge struck down the California ban, from the voter initiative Proposition 8, and entered judgment against state officials, the officials declined to appeal.

It is over a ballot initiative, Proposition 8, which would rewrite California's constitution so as to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

The state law was a result of a 2004 voter initiative, Proposition 200, that said it was meant to combat voter fraud.

While not a perfect fix, the new initiative, Proposition 66, would at least restrict third-strike treatment to serious and violent felons.

See reporting in The New York Times on the Nov. 8 ballot initiatives: Proposition 51 (a new school bond) | Propositions 62 and 66 (death penalty questions) | Propositions 65 and 67 (on banning plastic bags).

Continuing the trend on Tuesday, voters approved two other crime initiatives: Proposition 18, which extends the death penalty to arson and kidnapping cases, and Proposition 19, which increases the penalty for second-degree murder to life in prison if the victim is a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer or California State University peace officer.

Among California's 11 very expensive ballot initiatives, Proposition 37 is alone in showing such a clear reversal of public opinion in tight correspondence with corporate ad spending.

Indeed, a rudimentary change to the constitution's provisions on initiatives, Proposition 219, was approved by more than two thirds of voters in June 1998.

They then research other cases, initiatives, propositions and acts regarding affirmative action in the United States in order to prepare for a series of debates.