Sentence examples for referendum conduct from inspiring English sources

Following emergency discussions with the Electoral Commission and opposition parties, the government plans to table a statutory instrument in parliament to amend the referendum conduct regulations, reducing from five to three the number of working days before the poll that the electoral lists must be published.

PARENTS BACK STUDENTS In Referendum Conducted by the Undergraduates They Favor Abolition, 3,256 to 591.

Blair argued that the country was already divided and that a referendum conducted properly could be part of a healing process.

JUBA, Sudan — Nearly 99 percent of southern Sudanese voters have chosen to split off from northern Sudan and form their own country, according to preliminary results of an independence referendum conducted this month.

However, the first two did nothing to resolve the problems they were designed to address, while the EU referendum, conducted in a racist and chauvinistic atmosphere, was a defeat for Cameron and threw the major political parties into disarray.

During his presidential campaign in the summer of 2016, he told an interviewer that "the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were". Putin also invokes the notion of popular sovereignty, often citing a referendum conducted in the territory after the Russians took control.

The airport is a source of employment for people in Uxbridge and South Ruislip but, in a 2013 referendum conducted by the local Hillingdon Borough Council, 66% of those who voted said they opposed a new runway.

The Presidents of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, based on the results of the referendums conducted and on the decisions taken by the Parliaments of the two republics, appealed to Russia to recognize the state sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The fact that the referendum we propose would be advisory is nothing new, incidentally – we have always been perfectly clear that it would be a consultative and advisory poll, as indeed are normally all referendums conducted in the United Kingdom, including last year's Westminster-run poll on the proposed introduction of the Alternative Vote.

We want the elections to take place, but CAR's civil service has been destroyed – civil records no longer exist, so we have to reconstitute these and carry out another referendum and conduct a census.

I was very disappointed with how the referendum was conducted.