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  • In a referendum of November 1983, the white electorate endorsedP.†  (source)
  • Former foreign minister Sir William Temple says foreign ministers avoid matters taken ad referendum by tampering with the provinces and cities.†  (source)
  • In the final weeks of her life she was intensely involved in the pro-euro campaign preceding the Swedish referendum on the euro.†  (source)
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  • The referendum sought to prevent state colleges and universities from offering reduced in-state tuition to undocumented residents who'd grown up in Arizona.†  (source)
  • Although last-minute maneuvers failed to admit Colorado over the President's veto (sparsely populated Colorado had rejected statehood in a referendum), an unexpected tragedy brought false tears and fresh hopes for a new vote, in Kansas.†  (source)
  • I will even get myself an identity, many identities, in fact, and vote for it, if it ever comes to a referendum.†  (source)
  • No. Tooth paste, toothbrush, bicarbonate, Carborundum, initiative and referendum?†  (source)
  • The motto of the leading Republican paper of Missouri, Frank Blair's 6 The Illinois constitutional convention of 1847 had adopted and submitted to a popular referendum a provision that instructed the legislature to pass laws prohibiting the immigration of colored persons.†  (source)
  • Of one thing I'm sure—Celtic you'll live and Celtic you'll die; so if you don't use heaven as a continual referendum for your ideas you'll find earth a continual recall to your ambitions.†  (source)
  • All this was in June; and before long the question was submitted to a referendum in the unions, and the decision was for a strike.†  (source)
  • In 1960 the Government held a referendum which led to the establishment of the Republic.†  (source)
  • The number of asylum seekers increased, and the resulting unemployment and backlash from local government prompted the city of Sjöbo to hold a referendum in 1998, where the population voted against accepting immigrants.†  (source)
  • The referendum had succeeded in driving Cristian out of school, but Cristian was just one of thousands of new freshman.†  (source)
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