plebiscite
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Still, investors remain nervous about the fallout from Thursday’s plebiscite.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
In the daily plebiscite on America, this Ivy League historian votes “Yes, but.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
History is not a plebiscite in which 50% of the current population decides what’s true and important.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
This made it more a plebiscite than an actual election, with posters of Hadi above each ballot box.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2024
Cavour appealed to the doctrine of the popular will to be expressed by a plebiscite.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
In spite of those setbacks, voters in other car-centric cities, like Austin and Los Angeles, have used plebiscites to back mass transit in the past.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024
Formerly German territories awarded to Poland and Denmark had Danish- and Polish-speaking majorities who voted decisively in League of Nations plebiscites that they did not wish to remain with Germany.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
None of the plebiscites has been binding, however, and turnout has often been low, amid boycotts by critics who support the status quo or independence.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
After plebiscites in 1983, one island chain became the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, thereby remaining part of the United States, adjacent to Guam, long a U.S. territory.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
“Write that down, Adah. If we don’t boil our water for thirty full minutes we’ll get plebiscites and what not.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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