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 plebiscite ['plɛbə`saɪt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 公民投票, 平民表决



    plebiscite
    [ noun ]
    a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance
    <noun.act>


    Plebiscite \Pleb"i*scite\, n. [F. pl['e]biscite, fr. L.
    plebiscitum.]
    A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a
    popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National
    Constitution of 1791. [Written also {plebiscit}.]

    Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from
    the French. --Fitzed.
    Hall.

    1. Specifically Chile must conduct a plebiscite sometime during the next eight months to allow voters a chance to say "si" or "no" to eight more years of Pinochet rule.
    2. Montana Cuellar said in his letter to Pastrana that he supported a plebiscite, but Turbay of the Liberals said he doubted agreement on what should be included could be reached before the May 27 election.
    3. A motion to hold the election plebiscite Nov. 26 was approved by a vote of 294-7 in the 380-seat legislature.
    4. The plebiscite could be as early as March 13, coinciding with the nationwide election of mayors.
    5. In Sunday's plebiscite, 88.2 percent voted for secession, and thousands celebrated the results in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana by dancing in the streets and uncorking champagne.
    6. Which is the same reasoning that Puerto-Rican born Yvette Hernandez _ the non-voter _ uses in asserting her right to vote in a plebiscite.
    7. Previously, military authorities have rejected any suggestion that a possible defeat in the plebiscite might lead to major structural changes in the system.
    8. The plebiscite was never held, and the Kashmir question has simmered for four decades.
    9. Duarte did not say when such a plebiscite might take place.
    10. She's the fan." Deputies in Slovenia on Thursday proposed a plebiscite on independence from Yugoslavia after declaring many federal laws incompatible with the republic's newly drawn constitution.
    11. Then there is always the menace of a plebiscite.
    12. Pinochet called on his followers "to fight to achieve victory" in the presidential plebiscite.
    13. A plebiscite is scheduled for Feb. 2.
    14. After losing a plebiscite Wednesday on extending his presidency, the general told Chileans in a televised speech that he respected "the verdict of the majority."
    15. Student leaders said in a news release that Ecuador's foreign minister, Diego Cordovez, "was not welcome any more" in Panama because of the plebiscite proposal.
    16. Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon, leader of the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party, proposed a status plebiscite in his 1989 inaugural speech following his re-election to a second consecutive four-year term.
    17. The Council of Labor Union Federations, which represents organized labor in Suriname, issued a statement rejecting the army's interpretation of the constitution, approved approved by a plebiscite in 1987.
    18. A minimum of 100,000 signatures is required to force a plebiscite.
    19. How quickly and peacefully that process occurs is among many questions that Wednesday's stunning plebiscite left unanswered.
    20. Udall and de Lugo also cited last summer's violence in Palau surrounding a plebiscite in which a majority of Palauans voted to change their constitution's strong prohibition on nuclear weapons in their country.
    21. But the plebiscite is seen as a last-ditch effort to get other republics to agree to a new, loose confederation rather than a step toward immediate secession.
    22. A legislative committee called for a plebiscite on the creation of an "independent, sovereign state of Slovenia," the state news agency Tanjug reported.
    23. It was supposed to enshrine the principle of nationalism and another fashionable intellectual concept, "self-determination," by which was understood the adjustment of frontiers by plebiscite according to ethnic preference.
    24. "They thought they could go for a plebiscite and win; Pinochet made the same mistake.
    25. The government announced last week that it is considering a plebiscite as early as June to approve unspecified constitutional changes.
    26. While Serbia is holding its runoff elections, Slovenia will be voting in a plebiscite on independence from Yugoslavia.
    27. Much less that he would organize free elections if he lost the plebiscite.
    28. While no one rules out a plebiscite giving Gen.
    29. It is backing Guillermo Endara, who has called the election a plebiscite on Noriega's de facto rule.
    30. The idea of 2.5 million people on the mainland taking part in the plebiscite doesn't sit well with everyone, especially Sergio Pena Clos, a member of the island's Senate.
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