Similar words: reference, preference, preferential, deference, deferential, deferentially, refer, prefer. Meaning: [‚refə'rendəm] n. a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate.
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121. Why hold a referendum, when no one could challenge the imposition of his will?
122. The legislation is now likely to prove the basis for implementing the referendum it failed to forestall.
123. The handling of the whole referendum affair was widely regarded by commentators as a humiliation for Tudjman's administration.
124. That tale goes a long way toward explaining why the spineless weasels in Dogpatch have once again rejected a referendum.
125. And, finally, he announced that another referendum would be held in January 1961.
126. The independence referendum had provoked warnings from Gorbachev that it would lead to a breakup of the Union and hence disaster.
127. His parliament is preparing for a referendum, to be held by June at the latest.
128. That the White Revolution was massively acclaimed by referendum in 1973 did not commend it any the more to the clergy.
129. In the referendum the population of Western Samoa voted narrowly in favour of the introduction of universal suffrage.
130. Bouchard vowed to call another referendum when conditions were right.
131. Its 495-326 vote had the effect of curbing Mr Yeltsin's authority and cancelling his plans for an April referendum.
132. Meanwhile, the referendum campaign was marked by increasingly heated rhetoric on both sides.
133. At issue: What, exactly, needs to be attached to a referendum petition for the signatures to be valid.
134. A referendum on Pinochet's continuation in power was put to the voters.
135. In February 1992, Bosnia's authorities held a referendum on independence.
136. I believe Teddy Roosevelt originally had the idea of giving people the right to a national referendum on major Supreme Court decisions.
137. The classical idea of a constituent assembly submitting a constitution to referendum was thus to be mediated through the Landtage.
138. The announcement of the referendum provoked a huge storm in the political world.
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139. Then Tymoshenko and other opposition leaders disagreed over whether to enter into talks with Kuchma or organize a popular referendum against him.
140. The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.
141. I consider the idea that the issue should be decided by a referendum nothing short of bizarre.
142. However, when the results of the referendum were known, it agreed to participate in the new system.
143. He asked for approval of a constitution with sweeping new presidential powers in the failed referendum last week.
144. They reiterated their call for a popular referendum on the country's future political system.
145. It has even been suggested that the fate of trophy items should be decided openly by a referendum.
146. Mr Yeltsin repeated his threat that if parliament did not approve his version, he would take it to a referendum.
147. Later, they called for a public referendum on several water issues, to be voted on during the November general election.
148. The new parliament's principal task would be to draft a constitution for approval by the electorate in a referendum.
149. Under the Gephardt plan, the issues would be selected after public hearings and the referendum results would be nonbinding.
150. Preparations for a retreat on the referendum were evident at Labour's Brighton conference last week.
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