Sentence examples for referendum off from inspiring English sources

Claiming the state can't take on more long-term debt, he seeks to keep a referendum off the Nov. 6 ballot.

Business groups had persuaded a judge to throw the referendum off the November ballot because of invalid signatures, but late Friday a state court of appeals ordered the proposal back on the ballot.

Electing a party that takes an EU referendum off the table may turn out to be vital not just to the UK's enduring EU membership but to maintaining our own union, at least for the lifetime of the next parliament.

I had a big argument with one of the guys in the studio, who's actually based in Scotland, about the possibilities of Scotland having another referendum off the back of the vote.

It cited a past court decision that "a validly derived proposal initiated by a charter revision commission will 'bump' any other referendum off the ballot, so that the voters can give their full attention to the important task of reviewing the City Charter".

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, whose office has presented statistics showing that class sizes have shrunk slightly since 2002, opposed the idea of a referendum last year; the city's Corporation Council issued a ruling that kept such a referendum off the ballot last November.

It did not feature a referendum on off-season pitching moves or a swap of underachieving right fielders.

And late that night, Papandreou's precious referendum was off.

So now the referendum is off, and with it any hope of Greece uniting behind the present deal or negotiating better terms.

Mr. Snyder has sought to have that language removed from the ballot or, barring that, to have the referendum called off.

But as the initial shock of the British referendum wears off, something unexpected is happening: the tragedy no longer looks like a fait accompli.