Sentence examples for public referendums from inspiring English sources

Public referendums may be held on major issues.

Finally, after a series of contentious public referendums, digging began on two new tunnels in 2002.

It protects the rights of people with disabilities to vote by secret ballot in elections and public referendums.

Now the Bellotti majority described corporate spending on public referendums as speech that lay "at the heart of the First Amendment's protection".

The legislatures in Washington and Maryland approved same-sex marriage this year, but opponents gathered enough signatures to force public referendums on the laws.

Public referendums are not big in China, though in Zhangjiakou, a city 200km (125 miles) north-west of Beijing, officials would have had little to fear.

Passing an amendment requires approval from two consecutive Legislatures, followed by a public referendum.

For the N.A.A.C.P., though, the dispute has turned into a public referendum on its mission.

The law had been upheld in public referenda in 1989 and 2009.

(By law, revisions passed by Parliament must then be approved in a public referendum).

The president is not permitted to dissolve the House of Representatives without a public referendum.