Sentence examples for negative referendum from inspiring English sources

The election turned into a negative referendum - on Carter and his record.

In November 2006, just a month into our deployment, Democrats won control over both houses of Congress in what was interpreted as a negative referendum on that war.

And Twitter's tumbling share price (it's now down more than sixty per cent since its first day of trading) has served as a constant negative public referendum on its prospects, which has eaten away at its employees' morale, a problem compounded by the fact that Twitter relies so heavily on stock-based compensation to pay its workers.

Just over two weeks before polling day, there was a 5-65-6%ippage in remain's polling partly due to the success of leave's message on immigration and the negative effects of referendum coverage coming through the prism of a Tory party struggle.

He said he would attempt to mitigate the negative effects of the referendum result.

People are not educated about the negative aspects of this referendum.

Nearly two-thirds of those polled said the outcome of the referendum was negative for their business.

Ashraf Khalil, a Cairo-based journalist, assessing the repercussions of the violence in Benghazi, wrote on Thursday, "The plausible worst-case scenario is that this becomes, for many Americans, a referendum and negative judgment on the Arab Spring".

Being aware of the effects of negative conversations about marriage referendums can also be a good reason to keep conversations civil -- on both sides -- to prevent a bitter back-and-forth debate.

GDP in the eurozone is now expected to grow 1.6% this year and just 1.4% in 2017, a slowdown from a 1.7% expansion last year, "mainly due to the negative impact of the UK referendum", the IMF said.

In the polling place where Mr. Miru voted, an official assured reporters that not 1 of the 435 votes cast in the first four hours of the referendum had been negative.