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plebiscite
noun as in ballot
Example Sentences
In 2017, Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá saw an error message for her website “Cuba Decide,” an initiative calling for a national plebiscite on free elections.
"This plebiscite that was conducted by the New Progressive Party was a political trick to entice people to come out to the polls," Velázquez said.
The government in Kiev has denounced the plebiscite as a “criminal farce.”
And yet her call for a plebiscite smacks as much of political despair than a statesman's conviction.
Salmond, therefore, was careful not to promise an immediate plebiscite.
Its protest was, therefore, against that convention which destroys the plebiscite of Southern Italy.
On December 21, the result of the so-called popular plebiscite was announced.
Within three days a senatus consultum was ready recommending the desired change to another plebiscite.
The régime under which this plebiscite will be taken and given effect to is laid down in the annex hereto.
My friend was scornful, and I bribed him to mention the plebiscite to no one, but secretly I was elated and amazed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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