Sentence examples for several referendums from inspiring English sources

Several referendums later, Quebec remains part of Canada and surely is the better for it.

Chávez has held several referendums and elections since coming to power nine years ago, although none as close as yesterday's.

Several referendums that had been scheduled in Iraq in the past few years never actually took place.

Talking to Greeks yesterday, you might have thought there were several referendums happening simultaneously – a perfect illustration of just how muddy the waters of the debt crisis are.

Most places that are trying to relax term limits are likely to do so via the ballot box, with several referendums due in November.

Although they have backed the planning regime in several referendums, they have also balked at light-rail schemes intended to underpin it and approved a more generous compensation scheme for landowners hurt by zoning.

After several referendum setbacks, the Swiss government has put off its ambitions for EU membership until later in the decade.

In 1993 voters approved several referenda, later ratified by parliament, to alter the electoral law so that thenceforth three-fourths of deputies and senators would be elected from single-member constituencies rather than proportionally.

In Swiss cantons, several referenda have demonstrated the median voter's preferences for balanced budgets and her aversion to deficits.4 The individual cantonal legislation, and in particular each cantonal Finance Management Act of Parliament (FMA5), reflects these preferences.

There have since been several referenda on the EU issue; due to a mixed reaction from the population the membership application has been frozen.

Several state referendums were also passed, including California's initiative to fund stem-cell research.