(n.) A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791.
Example Sentences:
(1) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
(2) And, like Faulkner, Ruddick sees democratisation as the remedy – he wants electorate plebiscites for lower house preselections and statewide plebiscites for the upper house.
(3) The SNP can now contend that it is not they who are the reckless parochialists To an extent that is not widely appreciated, Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to go for broke by calling for a fresh plebiscite represents a dramatic shift in her strategy.
(4) I can’t see they’d be able to ameliorate this.” Malcolm Turnbull’s quest for power leaves him at odds with the electorate | Peter Lewis Read more Xenophon said the aspects of the plebiscite that troubled him were the cost, the amount of “national oxygen” spent on the issue and its non-binding nature.
(5) It’s more to do with the politics within the Coalition rather than what I think the community wants, which is to get on with this issue to be dealt with where it ought to be dealt with – and I think that’s the fed parliament.” Asked if his party would pass the plebiscite enabling legislation, Xenophon replied: “Right now it’s a no.
(6) But the point of focusing on achieving a clear majority in parliament is to reduce the possibility of a plebiscite,” he said.
(7) A spokesman for Tasmanian crossbench senator Jacqui Lambie said she would support going ahead with the marriage equality plebiscite if it was run together with plebiscite questions on Indigenous recognition and euthanasia.
(8) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
(9) A Senate committee has warned the Turnbull government against a referendum or plebiscite on marriage equality, saying it is “squarely within the parliament’s power” to make a decision.
(10) The Coalition has yet to decide if the results of the plebiscite would be binding on its members.
(11) The treasurer, Scott Morrison, said the finer points of the plebiscite would be worked through in the usual way.
(12) But Abbott carefully kept open both the referendum and plebiscite options when he was asked a direct question about the preferred mechanism on Monday.
(13) One of the big flashpoints at the Liberal NSW state council meeting was a push by the Warringah conference to rewrite the party’s constitution to reflect John Howard’s proposal to introduce plebiscites involving all local members to decide on preselections in all state and federal seats.
(14) Australian Marriage Equality national director, Rodney Croome, said Shelton’s comments in the blog “expose the real agenda behind his group’s advocacy for a plebiscite which was to delay marriage equality and take it off the agenda”.
(15) Opinion polls consistently suggest Australians support marriage equality, but the plebiscite question has yet to be framed and parliament’s attitude to that vote has yet to be properly established.
(16) Irish voters are set to back the introduction of marriage equality by a margin of as much as two-to-one next week and become the first country to approve the policy in a national plebiscite, a series of polls indicated on Saturday.
(17) The reports of McEwan’s comments on Brexit, originally in English, also varied, with El Mundo saying McEwan had criticised “hasty decisions made through a plebiscite, which remind me of the Third Reich” , while El Confidencial reported him saying : “Brexit has been a real disaster, and I feel bad because we are a parliamentary democracy and I don’t like these decisions adopted by plebiscite which remind me of the Third Reich.” Writing in the Guardian in July, McEwan voiced disbelief at the Brexit vote.
(18) Abbott claimed the “disposition” of the party was to have a referendum or plebiscite in the next term – even though only a handful of MPs had raised that idea.
(19) Greens senator, Janet Rice, won support to refer the issue of a same-sex marriage plebiscite to the legal and constitutional affairs committee in August.
(20) Labor and the Greens say plans to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage are “shambolic” and should be abandoned in favour of a parliamentary vote.
Sovereignty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(2) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(3) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(4) On bilateral issues with Australia, Marsudi stressed Indonesia’s sovereignty and said the case in hand was a legal, rather than political situation.
(5) 4.23pm GMT Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@ PaulLewis ) has more on defense secratary Hagel’s warning to Russia that military exercises planned near the border of Ukraine could “lead to miscalculation”: “We expect other nations to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoid provocative actions,” Hagel told a press conference during a NATO defence meeting in Brussels.
(6) As Margaret Thatcher declared in Bruges in 1988: “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” It was never about sovereignty.
(7) We are effectively now placed in co-sovereignty with a hostile power.
(8) In short, a durable, successful currency union requires some ceding of national sovereignty."
(9) The dispute over sovereignty has been going on for centuries, and Britain has never been really confident over its claim to the islands.
(10) This is because the prime minister is aiming to transfer sovereignty in the opposite direction – from Brussels back to the UK.
(11) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(12) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.
(13) Judge Yehia el-Dakroury declared that Egypt’s maritime border would not be redrawn, meaning that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir would remain under Egyptian sovereignty.
(14) Japan has rejected a compromise that would grant Japan sovereignty over the two smallest territories of the Habomai chain and Shikotan, but only after the countries sign a peace treaty.
(15) In 2015, Seagal was included in a proposed blacklist of foreign cultural figures who “speak out in support of violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine” along with French actor Gérard Depardieu and many Russian artists.
(16) Timerman is in London to argue the historical and legal case for Argentinian sovereignty over the islands.
(17) China’s foreign ministry said: “There is only one China in the world, the mainland and Taiwan both belong to one China and China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity will not brook being broken up.
(18) Little blue men: the maritime militias pushing China's claims Read more Tensions between China and the United States are high in the South China Sea , where Beijing has been building islets into military bases and is asserting sovereignty over large parts of the critical waterway.
(19) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
(20) I hereby make a special appeal to Ecowas, AU [African Union] and the UN, particularly the security council, to support the government and people of the Gambia in enforcing their will, restore their sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy,” he said.