Sentences with phrase «failed referendum attempts»

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Comparing that successful campaign with the Park District's recent failed attempt, Brissa said the Park District must do a better job of getting comments from residents before proposing new programs or referendum questions.

Rebel Tory backbenchers fail in their attempt to impose thresholds on the AV Referendum - but 21 MPs back the bid before the bill clears the Commons

Appeasing the nationalist right rarely works — something which David Cameron failed to understand with his own attempts to curb immigration through clamping down on «health tourism» or the offer of a EU referendum.

The Electoral Commission announced this morning that is launching an investigation into whether Ukip broke election funding laws by using money from a European parliament group to fund Farage's failed attempt to win a seat and during the Brexit referendum.

The decision to hold a referendum in the first place was party political — former Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt, monumentally failed, to silence Conservative eurosceptics and to quash UKIP.

[3] Since 1972, all attempts to create state voucher programs through referendum have failed, generally by two - to - one margins.

In hind sight one can deduce the various attempts to carry out this diabolical plot: the illegal takeover of an elected BBOE, the failed attempt at a charter change referendum and the hiring of Paul Vallas, public school destroyer extraordinaire.

The most well - known attempt to incorporate a reference to Indigenous Australians was the failed referendum of 1999, when Australians, in addition to voting on whether Australia should become a republic, voted on whether to adopt a new preamble to the Australian Constitution.