plebiscite

How To Use plebiscite In A Sentence

• A 1946 plebiscite ended the monarchy, and a constituent assembly was elected to draw up plans for the republic.
• A national plebiscite on the constitution will be held before October 15.
• If the public cannot have a clear understanding of what they are going to vote for, the plebiscite cannot have any meaning.
• A plebiscite process is a democratic mechanism to ensure that the people get to choose.
• The vote can be defined as a plebiscite against the existing regime, which has discredited itself and is hated by broad sections of the population.
• Newfoundland, finally, became the tenth province after a plebiscite in 1948.
• The parties accused de Gaulle of preparing a plebiscite; the General accused them of coveting an irresponsible, omnipotent assembly.
• The plebiscite, undoubtedly, as well as the election of deputies to the Corps Legislatif are simply comedies; but, in these comedies, one rôle is as good as another and the duke of the old or new pattern, a mere figurant among hundreds and thousands of others, votes only once like the corner-grocer. The Modern Regime, Volume 1
• Even after he stepped down in 1990 following a plebiscite rejecting his rule, his spell still hung over the nation.
• James deplored the fact that this year ended as the last had begun - with an unsuccessful vote on the question of holding a plebiscite on the road.