Referendum used in a sentence

Referendum in a sentence as a noun

In Switzerland, as long as you can get 100'000 to sign a referendum, you can get a bill to be voted on.

The local authorities made three tries to pass a referendum, being rejected each time.

[1]-----[1] Not relevant to this discussion, but the referendum was for school construction.

This was not a referendum, nor even a proper opinion poll - just a partisan petition.

However, that referendum suspends the ordinance that makes their business model legal.

When Lyft and UberX didn't get exactly what they wanted, they filed and paid for signature gathering to put the ordinance to a referendum; their right to do so under law.

It's like that joke about a Belarusian referendum ballot: Do you not object for the president to remain in power indefinitely?

In the state of Washington, it's actually unconstitutional for any state bill, referendum, or voter initiative to have more than one topic.

Apart from the problems of holding referendums while occupied, the referendum itself was not legal under neither Ukrainian nor Crimean law [1].

Switzerland is having a national referendum on whether to offer one, and stipends from oil or casino money, while not enough to live on at this point, already exist in a few places.

" You think they give a **** about "freedom of information," the "freedom to tinker," etc?American politics is 90% a referendum on jobs, and has been since the recession of the late 1980's/early 1990's.

He made a really quite modest personal political donation on one side of an issue the state of California had deemed contentious enough to hold a referendum.

The only difference is that after the awakening that followed the crash it was decided to have a national referendum to allow people to vote a special Constitutional Council.

As for Eastern Ukraine, there is far smaller Russian support there and any talks of federalization or referendums is an attempt by the Russian side to repeat the Crimean takeover.

The only referendum Russians will allow is another "occupendum", and if Ukraine tried hosting a fair one, Russia would do anything to undermine it, discredit the results and then invade anyways.

I support the project not because it's perfectly designed, but because it would set a terrible precedent for future development in the city if opponents successfully use the referendum process to block it.

I hope she hasn't ever donated to any disagreeable referendum campaigns.........or ever been a core member of an administration that left us with two disastrous wars, an offshore gulag, the greatest economic disaster in 70 years, a record of legitimizing torture, a decline in prestige on the world stage.