Sentences with phrase «hold a referendum less»

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WOODSTOCK — Less than 15 minutes after voting to hold an April referendum on a $ 3.9 million bond issue for recreation, the Woodstock city council debated a proposal to reorganize the parks and recreation department as an independent park district.

The Tories have nevertheless been highly critical of Mr Brown's refusal to hold a referendum, although have been less certain in clarifying what they would do with the treaty if it was approved by parliament but not the public.

Even the Tories» promise to hold an EU referendum was backed by less than half (49 %) of those polled, while just over half backed the pledge to cut inheritance tax.

Many Conservatives thought that they had more or less killed off John Prescott's misguided and wasteful regional agenda with the defeat of plans to amalgamate police forces two years ago and the heavy defeat of proposals for a North East Assembly in a referendum held in November 2004.

The Liberal Democrats clearly wanted to change the first - past - the - post system radically, but the compromise to hold a referendum on a merely slightly less majoritarian Alternative Vote system was too lukewarm a compromise to ignite anyone's passion, let alone that of the electorate.