Sentence examples for prior referendum from inspiring English sources

And at the heart of the plan is a so-called "metro mayor", who will arrive without a prior referendum, have powers covering the police, planning, transport and housing, and be directly elected from 2017 onwards.

In response to the Osborne/Manchester plan Liverpool's mayor, Joe Anderson (elected in 2012 with no prior referendum) phrased Forbes's essential point in rather more brutal language: "Manchester and many of our other great northern cities have been absolutely battered by the government's austerity measures and cuts … It's like the government taking a house off you and giving you a shed to live in.

Three prior referendums held in 1968, 1971 and 1973 had failed to secure women's right to vote.

But surely this Convention cannot cover up the fact that our institutions are systematically riding roughshod over the subsidiarity principle, that extremely drastic measures are taken without prior referendums, and even that the European Union is once again flouting the sovereignty of the Member States at this summit, for example by again callously ignoring the results of the Irish referendum.

To see what a phony "renegotiation" prior to a referendum looks like, go back to 1974-75.

But the No to AV figures do not include donations it received prior to the referendum bill passing in parliament.

For 2016, GDP growth has been supported by a strong performance prior to the referendum, even though business investment contracted.

"The economy is performing a little better than expected, albeit it is slow relative to the rate it had prior to the referendum," Carney said.

However, GDP is projected to slow to 1% in 2017, well below the pace in recent years and forecasts prior to the referendum.

I spent two months in Scotland prior to the referendum – in which I wasn't eligible to vote – and politics was in the streets.

It certainly worked for the Sunday Herald, which enjoyed a big circulation boost when it stood alone prior to the referendum in favour of independence.