Sentence examples for making a referendum from inspiring English sources

The issue of referendum timing and the refugee crisis also concerns Downing Street, but it has been assumed that if the UK cannot complete its negotiations in time for the 17 February EU council and a referendum in June, then a deal would be reached in March, making a referendum possible in late September.

In May, he wrote an article for Progress magazine criticising the Conservatives for being driven by Ukip into "placing a huge question mark over the UK's membership of the European Union, access to our country's biggest export market and our place as the most successful source of inward investment in Europe by making a referendum on withdrawal from the EU the centrepiece of their policy".

Indeed the UK government has upped the stakes, and made a referendum a reality.

The then prime minister had wanted to make a referendum on the euro a centrepiece of his second term.

Salmond's stunning victory in May 2011 had made a referendum inevitable, but its details were yet to be determined.

But to avoid putting this to the test, their efforts are bent on avoiding referendums (except for Ireland, whose law may make a referendum unavoidable).

He is much less prominent and controversial than David Davis, the ex-shadow home secretary who has quixotically resigned his parliamentary seat, triggering a by-election that he wants to make a referendum on civil liberties.

As Gaby Hinsliff wrote in her snap verdict on the PM: For Tory waverers-to-Ukip, there was a renewed vow to make a referendum on Europe a red line, effectively ruling out another Liberal Democrat coalition (though since most of those Lib Dems likely to survive are if anything even less keen, that's perhaps not as significant as it once was).

Mr. Boehner's stance threatened to throw Congress back into the debt-limit stalemate that consumed Washington in 2011, but this time at the height of a campaign that Republicans are trying to make a referendum on Mr. Obama's handling of the economy.

But Spain's national government is opposed to any move towards independence and its blessing is constitutionally required to make a referendum legal.

And so a change in the Spanish constitution, to make a referendum possible, seems highly unlikely, given that the PP's majority of MPs in the Spanish parliament could block such a move.