Sentence examples for referendum support from inspiring English sources

But to allow Klaus to save face, EU leaders would be expected to supply written assurances, as was done with Ireland to encourage referendum support for the treaty.

But opinion polls following the referendum support the argument that many voted no because they were unfamiliar with it and did not want to vote for something they didn't understand.

The Scottish National Party has said it would not allow nuclear weapons to be based in Scotland, should next year's referendum support independence, a move that would potentially add billions to the cost of replacing Trident.

Before the referendum, support for an exit from the EU was a minority position, but politicians learned that they could drum up support for their cause by stoking tensions and encouraging people to fear and despise each other.

A local advisory referendum supported selling naming rights to the Green Bay Packers' new field, he said.

A new referendum supported independence, and it duly arrived on June 27 1977.

That rider came after 69percentt of voters in a referendum supported medical marijuana.

A majority of the population are Russian speakers and voted "Yes" in the March referendum, supporting Russia and President Putin.

The heart of the case concerns $500,000 in contributions by Mr. Scrushy to retire campaign debt on a lottery referendum supported by the governor.

In Europe, meanwhile, France and Belgium passed laws prohibiting Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public at the same time that 57 percent of voters in a Swiss referendum supported a ban on building minarets outside mosques.

In 2004, the United Nations backed a referendum supported heavily by the Turkish side that called for a weak central government in a federal state structure, but the majority Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly voted against it.