Sentence examples for referendum system from inspiring English sources

The Governator relied on using that referendum system to bypass the legislature.

Mr. Pataki won the party leadership's support, after years of courtship, largely by supporting an initiative and referendum system.

California has a referendum system, so the voters of Richmond on November 6 will vote up or down, yes or no if they want a soda tax.

IF IT was a sunny day for Republicans, it was a greyer one for American exponents of a more direct form of democracy, the referendum system.

He used the referendum system to keep Switzerland well away from the European Union, and he persistently blamed immigration for the country's ills.

In places like California, the referendum system leaves electoral officials with so little room for manoeuvre that the state is virtually ungovernable.

Brown has just said that the public should decide in a referendum what system they want.

He is even more scathing about the No campaign's claim – disputed by AV supporters – that the referendum and new system would cost £250m.

"Thousands of girls are transported by the government to the Reed Dance as if it were a referendum on the system itself".

Standing next to her at Coogan's, Peter Walsh said the primary turnout was a "referendum on the system; people don't like it".

The prospect of a referendum on a system that ranks candidates by order of preference might not at first appear to offer a rich seam of comedy, but the spats between the two sides have already gone beyond satire.