Sentence examples for sort of plebiscite from inspiring English sources
Justice Scalia, on the losing side, then included this comeback in his own opinion: "Value judgments, after all, should be voted on, not dictated; and if our Constitution has somehow accidentally committed them to the Supreme Court, at least we can have a sort of plebiscite each time a new nominee to that body is put forward".
Speaking on ABC radio on Monday, Coalition senator Eric Abetz said: "This idea that somehow you can have a proper plebiscite without funding for the yes and no cases would not be the sort of plebiscite that was envisaged by the partyroom when we decided on it".
There are "digital assemblies" (a sort of virtual plebiscite), "Ask Podemos" (question-and-answer sessions with party leaders), and "Podemos Plaza" (a freewheeling discussion via message board).
The opposition Labour Party now says it would potentially support some form of plebiscite.
Perhaps there are other things that could be applied to the process to address some of the concerns about the plebiscite becoming some sort of sanctioned vilification exercise.
He is asking not for a plebiscite so much as some sort of reckoning, with violent language to boot (he said: "I think that if we had a second referendum on EU membership we would kill it off for a generation").
Technically, it's part of Moldova but according to a number of plebiscites, it doesn't want to be and is sort of half way to being its own state.
Digital technology makes ever more feasible a kind of government by plebiscite, in which the citizenry can decide everything by an instantaneous majority vote, sort of the way they do on "American Idol".
