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
The UN recommended holding a plebiscite to settle the question of whether the state would join India or Pakistan.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
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
In defiance of English prohibitions, they even held a popular plebiscite which upheld their claims.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
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
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
Another risk is the role of plebiscites in Slovenia, where anyone can demand a vote to knock down a newly passed law by gathering 40,000 signatures.
From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2013
“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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