Sentence examples for the plebiscite that from inspiring English sources

The student leaders were born as their parents were voting in the plebiscite that ended Pinochet's rule.

Becoming minister of the interior on the day of Louis-Napoléon's coup, Morny organized the plebiscite that made Louis-Napoléon dictator.

"Introducing another blackout period for the plebiscite that singles out commercial broadcasters is no longer appropriate in a converged media environment," Mitchell said.

On Monday, Nick Xenophon said there were no changes to the plebiscite that would win his party's support and called for a free vote in the parliament.

Though the coup of January 22, 1798 did not bode well for a genuinely democratic approval process for the new constitution (and the French would have preferred going the "safe" way of approval by the rump assembly) the plebiscite that started on March 17 (in the usual form of elections in "primary" assemblies of about 100-500 voters) had a reasonably democratic quality.

Thank you to Senator Ted Kennedy, for being in the National Stadium in Santiago in 1990 to exorcise tortured ghosts and at the same time to celebrate the inauguration of Patricio Aylwin, the first elected president after the plebiscite that brought Pinochet's dictatorship to a close.

It helps that the country has recently come round to thinking as he did then, as shown in the plebiscites that legalized divorce and contraception.

But while the marriage plebiscite that formed the basis of the Liberal Party's election platform is looking increasingly unlikely to happen, that doesn't mean that a free parliamentary vote on gay marriage will be easy either.

The final contender is Pablo Larrain's "No," from Chile, about the 1988 plebiscite that ended the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet; like Mr. Haneke's "Amour," it was a prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival last May.

From Chilean director Pablo Larrain, a film with a light touch about a heavy subject: the 1988 plebiscite that eventually led to the ousting of murderous US puppet and tin-pot dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The national plebiscite that necessarily followed found only 13.8 percent of the voters favouring the objectives of the right wing.