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Referendum in sentence

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It would not be government by referendum.
If you live in the state of California, for example, there's a referendum coming up this spring where actually there's going to be an effort to redirect some of the money we spend on the politics of punishment.
And this referendum would propose having those dollars go to law enforcement and safety.
Well, the thing is that, the congestion charges, they were introduced first as a trial, so they were introduced in January and then abolished again at the end of July, followed by a referendum, and then they were reintroduced again in 2007, which of course was a wonderful scientific opportunity.
That's why I called for a referendum to have the Greek people own and decide on the terms of the rescue package.
Let's imagine that European citizens actually have the power to vote directly for a European president, or citizen juries chosen by lottery which can deliberate on critical and controversial issues, a European-wide referendum where our citizens, as the lawmakers, vote on future treaties.
We lost a referendum to ban gun sales to civilians in 2005.
We had support from 80 percent of Brazilians, and thought that this could help us win the referendum to ban gun sales to civilians.
Guns and drugs are emotive issues, and as we've painfully learned in the gun referendum campaign in Brazil, sometimes it's impossible to cut through the emotions and get to the facts.
In other cases, systematic errors arise through deliberate fraud, like the presidential referendum held by Saddam Hussein in 2002, which claimed a turnout of 100% of voters with all 100% supposedly voting in favor of another seven-year term.
So it came as an immense shock to me when I woke up on the morning of June 24 to discover that my country had voted to leave the European Union, my Prime Minister had resigned, and Scotland was considering a referendum that could bring to an end the very existence of the United Kingdom.
There were calls for a second referendum, almost as if, following a sports match, we could ask the opposition for a replay.
People blamed the Prime Minister for calling the referendum in the first place.
We also adopted by ballot referendum the Office of Immigrant Affairs for the City of New York.
So you can see Bulgaria, the United States of America, Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Brexit referendum at the end there.
Similarly, the election for the referendum on the Brexit vote, a small number of millions of British people voted on that, but the outcome of the vote, whichever way it went, would have had a significant impact on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of people around the world.
They even organized a petition on the internet with this cuddly logo, which eventually accumulated some 160,000 signatures And they demanded a referendum which will be conducted in just a couple of weeks about whether the trials would be permitted at all.
Last year, where I live, in the UK, there was a referendum where the people could vote for the UK to leave the EU or stay in the EU, popularly known as "Brexit."
And this entire referendum took place in darkness, because it took place on Facebook.
Because what I and other journalists have uncovered is that multiple crimes took place during the referendum.
This referendum took place almost entirely online.
And it was just one of the crimes that took place in the referendum.
There was going to be a national referendum.
South Sudan is going to be having a referendum in 2011 in which it is very likely to vote itself independence.
The requirements of the latest rescue deal are the toughest yet – even tougher than those that Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum earlier this month.
Regardless of whether the referendum succeeds or fails, and regardless of the details of the constitutional text, what is most important is the establishment of constitutional processes and institutions in Iraq, before and after the referendum.
Those who chose not to participate in last January’s elections will most certainly do so now, both in the referendum and in the upcoming elections to a new Assembly in December.
But the British parliament will probably reject whatever arrangement Prime Minister Theresa May manages to negotiate with European leaders, and the likeliest way to end the deadlock will be to hold a new referendum that reconsiders the decision to leave the EU.
But now the political mechanics that could lead to a new referendum and the cancellation of Brexit are becoming clear.
Pursuing such a desperately risky gamble against the expressed wishes of a parliamentary majority would trigger a constitutional crisis that could be resolved only by appealing to voters – either through a general election or a new referendum.
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