Sentence examples for plebiscite for from inspiring English sources
He also conceded he was not certain to win tomorrow night's confidence vote, or the plebiscite for that matter.
"This process is a plebiscite for the delivery of absolute power to one man – something I refuse to go along with," he said.
Upon his inauguration, Correa issued a decree calling for a plebiscite for the people to vote on April 15 for the election of a Constituent Assembly.
In his 1882 lecture "What is a Nation?", Ernest Renan argued that the question was a "daily plebiscite" for citizens; that every nation is held together by a "forgetfulness" of the brutality out of which it was born.
Turnbull stuck with the Abbott policy for a same-sex marriage plebiscite, for example, even though he had openly criticised the idea when the former prime minister came up with it.
Malcolm Turnbull, who for years after the 1999 referendum defeat was reluctant to talk about a republic, has now set out a detailed blueprint for achieving the goal, including suggesting an online plebiscite for the model.
In 1990 the government agreed to the creation of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), whereby four provinces with Muslim-majority populations voted in plebiscites for a degree of self-rule.
As bioethics is not an ivory-tower pursuit of what's right, in her last two chapters she reviews ways to reach agreement on what's right citizens' juries, consultations, plebiscites, for example.
Fairfax media on Saturday reported there was a push to give conservative MPs and senators express permission to vote against reform if their individual electorates had voted in a majority for "no" in the plebiscite scheduled for after the election.
On March 11 , 1938 two peremptory demands were made for the postponement of the plebiscite and for the resignation of Schuschnigg.
The prime minister has previously, publicly, expressed in-principle support for the Victorian system, which is a plebiscite system for preselections – but some party sources thought his contribution in the party room this week was more equivocal.
