Sentence examples for plebiscite of from inspiring English sources

A controlled plebiscite of April 10 gave a 99.7 percent approval.

And perhaps one day a plebiscite of turkeys will vote for Christmas.

The East Prussian plebiscite of July 1920 (at the height of the Russo-Polish War) was won by Germany.

As far back as 1998, the answer was provided by Hans Tietmeyer, the then governor of the Deutsche Bundesbank, who praised national governments for preferring "the permanent plebiscite of global markets" to the "plebiscite of the ballot box".

In the Silesian plebiscite of March 1921 preceded and followed by three Polish uprisings 682 communes voted for Poland and 792 for Germany.

Kiev says no, because it violates Article 73 of Ukraine's constitution which says the state's borders can be changed only after a plebiscite of the entire nation.

To comply with New York Agreement of 1962 which required a plebiscite on integration of West Irian into Indonesia before end of 1969, the Suharto government begin organizing for a so-called "Act of Free Choice" scheduled for July August 1969.

"Let's put the plebiscite out of its misery, it's on life support now, let's pull out the plug, end it and send a clear message to those in the community who fear a hate campaign," Di Natale said.

"You have people like Eric Abetz saying they won't respect the result of a plebiscite so opponents of marriage equality don't support it, and proponents of marriage equality don't either".

On the first part of the plebiscite, 54 percent of those who voted disagreed with the "present form of territorial status".

Plebiscites of this nature are thought to establish a direct link between the rulers and the ruled; intermediaries such as political parties are bypassed, and for this reason plebiscites are sometimes considered antithetical to pluralism and competitive politics.