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referendum English

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referendum

A referendum is vote on a law by the general public California held a referendum on the new tax law.

referendum

a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate

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Simple sentences

Greece cancels the referendum.
Kilby applied Emmet's theory to his investigation of the referendum held in Greece in 1948.
How do you think that Britons should vote in the upcoming referendum? What do you think the results will be like?

Movie subtitles

Finally comes the national referendum on repeal.
A page of history was turned for these presidential elections that De Gaulle called a referendum.
Maybe we need a referendum.
I've been asked, as acting principal, to inform you that a petition has been issued requesting a referendum on your removal as basketball coach.
I can arrange a referendum in Sicily.
What do you think about that referendum coming up?
There was a referendum.
Come on, Divorce Referendum!
Not as a referendum on man's wickedness but as part of the eternal order of the cosmos.
By referendum?
This is not a political referendum.
Who better to champion this referendum?
I'm opposed to the Commonwealth referendum.
It is referendum.
You may only propose this twinning agreement, but then we need a democratic referendum then the people may decide whether or not to be twinned with a nest full of Red vipers!
With the majority they received at the elections I don't see how or why they should lose the referendum.
I thought it was the man collecting signatures for the referendum.
You've started digging before the referendum.
Tonight's the referendum.
But, ultimately, this was a referendum on the leadership of George W. Bush. on the war against terror and the war in Iraq.
And yet, you've managed to turn this near-death fuck-up of yours into a moral referendum on me.
The city referendum showed all of us what the public thinks of cops. The department's fighting to change that perception so somebody has to pay a price. And right now, that's you.
This referendum failing, cutbacks are hitting hard.
I hereby formally propose we hold a public referendum of the subject, so that all Jaffa can participate in the decision before us.
You are the one who tabled this proposal for a referendum.
Following the referendum where France heeded de Gaulle's call for self-determination, Algeria is to gain independence.
If it doesn't end now, it'll become a referendum on the Bartlet presidency.
But ultimately this was a referendum on the leadership of George W. Bush on the war against terror and the war in Iraq.
He filed a petition for a statewide referendum to fire all gay teachers and anyone who supports them.
A referendum to repeal gay rights protection.
I am collecting signatures for a national referendum.
Now, without further ado, let's get ready to referendum!
Ballot for the referendum. Ignorant!
We voted last year in a referendum to preserve it as a snowy egret habitat and future site of the Eastwick Bird Museum.
The home office is already under considerable pressure for a public referendum on the death penalty.
We were having a discussion about the future of our community, and you attacked me and turned it into a referendum about your manhood.
We will have a referendum on the country's political future.

News and current affairs

A Referendum For Kurdistan?
Confronted with the debacle in the rest of (Arab) Iraq, the question has to be asked why the US-led coalition should not hold a referendum in the Kurdish region, asking the population how they would like to be ruled.
There are obvious obstacles to holding such a referendum, primarily because the US does not have a mandate to dispose of Iraq as it pleases.
Recently, under the aegis of the UN, a referendum on the future of Cyprus was held within the island's Greek and Turkish communities.
Such a referendum may also concentrate minds among the Arab Sunnis and Shia in Iraq, when they come to realize that it is their violence that is dismantling Iraq.
The 2012 election is shaping up as a referendum on Obama's policies and performance.
Tony Blair has promised a referendum on the new EU constitution, which he cannot possibly win.
Unfortunately, as things stand, this is a referendum that Blair will not win, because all polls show a large and solid majority against the European Constitution.
For the general expectation is that if France rejects the Constitution, the Constitution would be dead, and no British referendum would be needed.
LONDON - Which of the following events is more likely to happen this year: Scotland votes to secede from the United Kingdom in its September referendum, or at least one country decides to leave the eurozone?
Moreover, Pakistan has partly conceded its demand--which dates to the creation of India and Pakistan a little more than half a century ago--for an internationally supervised referendum in Kashmir to determine the province's sovereignty.
That Pakistan may be willing to put aside its demand for an international referendum in Kashmir is the first real sign of compromise to be seen over the issue in decades.
That is why Prime Minister David Cameron felt obliged to offer the British people a referendum on a simple question: in or out.
The year of the promised referendum, 2017, is comfortably far away.
As a result, the election could be less a referendum on the last eight years than a contest of ideas, with foreign policy emerging as a key topic.
In the aftermath of the negative referendum votes in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland on European constitutional reform, it is close to inconceivable that EU heads of government would agree to set off down that path again.
His opponents have responded by proclaiming their right to self-determination and threatening to boycott the referendum with which he hopes to legalize the reform.
LONDON - The Islamic State's attack in Paris in November was the latest crisis to delay Britain's bid to renegotiate its membership in the European Union, ahead of a planned referendum on whether to maintain the relationship.
Ominously, in a referendum this month, Danish voters, swayed by similar concerns about refugees and terrorism, rejected proposals for closer cross-border policing cooperation with the EU.
On October 6th, Brazil will hold its first round presidential elections in a vote that is seen as a referendum on President Fernando H. Cardoso's eight years in power.
BRUSSELS - Prime Minister David Cameron's offer to British citizens to hold a referendum on whether to leave the European Union might have seemed like a reasonably safe gamble just a few years ago.
Indeed, Cameron's promise is arguably the most consequential issue at stake in the British election: if he remains Prime Minister, there will be a referendum; if Miliband takes over, there will not be.
Doing so proved invaluable as recently as the Scottish independence referendum last September.
But important progress can be made by the time the UK's referendum is held - if, that is, EU leaders begin pursuing this goal in earnest now.

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