Sentences with phrase «referendum did»

The success of the 1967 referendum did not happen over night.

Remain voter Peter Wilding and Leave voter Adrian Yalland have instructed lawyers to argue that the EU referendum did not cover membership of the single market.

The government had accepted that the result of the referendum did not itself provide the source of a power to give the notice, because it was only «advisory», even though neither the Act nor the ballot paper said any such thing.

«It was a hard sale to put together and the referendum didn't make things easier,» Alex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art in Europe, said afterward.

Had Corbyn stood alongside the prime minister, it would have become «the abiding image of the campaign» and risk tarnishing Labour in the way that collaborating with the Conservatives in the Scottish independence referendum did.

Contrary to received wisdom, the 1975 referendum did NOT settle Britain's place in Europe for a generation.

A great many of those who signed up to the SNP after the referendum did so on the basis that they expected the party to call a second vote on the UK's constitutional future sooner rather than later.

To vote for the EU in this referendum will do for Labour in England and Wales what collaborating with the Tories during the Scottish independence referendum did in Scotland: destroy it.

However, it is apparent that the lost independence referendum did not lead to a decrease in SNP popularity (thus far).

Immediately after the referendum I argued that «While, given its royal prerogative, it is not altogether clear whether the government would have to take note of a parliamentary vote [on Brexit], it stands to reason that since the unconventional route of a popular referendum did not produce sufficient grounds to act on, the government has at least a moral duty to listen to the opinion of the body to which it is after all accountable.»

The law establishing the referendum did not specify any resulting action or level of...

The referendum didn't happen in a vacuum.

Brave people can do a lot of harm, and in the referendum they did.

Let's start from first principles: popular referendums do not protect parliamentary sovereignty; they usurp it.

Cameron and Osborne know they maximise their chances of keeping Britain within a largely - unreformed EU if the referendum doesn't also become a referendum on an unpopular government.

The Law advisory referendum does not explicitly clarify when there is a majority.

But referendums do not allow for nuance or ambiguity.

Passing of this referendum does not impact the settlement agreement but instead adds money to already cash strapped school districts in need of state dollars.

If the 2014 referendum does not rob Labour of its Scottish seats, declining support for the party within the union might.

Among the reservations that potential Labour voters have about the party — economic competence, opposition to welfare reform, the leader himself — opposition to an EU referendum does not rank very high.

Safe Labour seats swinging slightly to the SNP a la 1992 wouldn't be totally out of the question I think, even if the referendum doesn't go through - the biggest effect in terms of parliamentary elections I think will be seen at Holyrood, where the SNP might fare badly in the future if they don't manage independence.

Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised by his own MPs after it emerged that a leaflet urging Labour voters to back Remain in the EU referendum does not contain the word «immigration».

Jackson pointed out that in Manhattan those referendums did not enjoy majority support.

A binding referendum does not detract from sovereignty, it is an expression of it.

Not exact matches

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney backed U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's European Union deal ahead of a June referendum on membership, saying the agreement allowed the central bank to do its job.

That fight began when the companies tried to overturn Austin's regulations by pouring nearly $ 9 million dollars into a local repeal referendum, saying they would leave if they didn't win.

Almost everyone expects the Bank of England to do this because the uncertainty caused by the referendum debate and the result likely caused a recession.

For those who don't make a decision, the default will be whatever the majority of people in your region selected, like a referendum.

Leaders of both the Conservative and Labour parties, which don't normally agree on much, have ruled out the possibility of holding a «second referendum».

Amazon, along with other tech giants such as Google (googl) and Apple (aapl), has increased its commitment to Britain in the last year, saying Britain's referendum decision to leave the EU last June did not affect its investment plans.

«They made an estimate during the referendum campaign,» Davis told the committee, «but I think of of the issues that's arisen is that those forecasts don't appear to have exactly been very robust since then.»

Though Morgan Stanley did point out that the risk of a referendum was higher in countries where they are called by garnering signatures rather than by the ruling parties.

A leaked audio recording of Theresa May speaking at Goldman Sachs in May — before the referendum and before she became prime minister — features the then - home secretary saying: «If we were not in Europe, I think there would be firms and companies who would be looking to say, do they need to develop a mainland Europe presence rather than a UK presence?»

Apart from railing against corruption, austerity, and institutional inertia (as Ciudadanos does), Podemos backs a referendum on independence in Catalonia.

Another piece of information Facebook has included in the written evidence is the claim that it does not believe AIQ used Facebook data obtained via Kogan's apps for targeting referendum ads — saying it used email address uploads for «many» of its ad campaigns during the referendum.

Schroepfer's responses on several requests by the committee for historical samples of the referendum ads AIQ had run amounted to «we'll see what we can do» — with the exec cautioning that he wasn't entirely sure how much data might have been retained.

A poll of British Columbians taken around the time of the 2011 referendum revealed that most respondents believed the HST to be a growth - enhancing tax structure, but they didn't think the benefits of that growth would accrue to them.

McNamee saw this in 2016 with both the Brexit referendum in the UK and the American Presidential election and concluded that Facebook does, indeed, give «asymmetric advantage» to negative messages.

We did not work on the Brexit referendum in the UK.

If Greece had cancelled the referendum & done the deal outlined in the Tspiras letter last Wednesday, it'd be seen as a creditor victory 1/2

In a televised address after the referendum, Tsipras insisted the vote did not mean a break with Europe.

Mollenkopf doesn't necessarily see it the same way and believes the dispute as a «smaller issue as opposed to a worldwide referendum on a business model.»

The B.C. Liberals forced the mayors to put this needed investment to a referendum, and now the premier won't even do her part to ensure her government's referendum passes — risking more gridlock, pass - ups, packed busses major gaps in service and a drag on the economy.

Either she wants to duck responsibility for the serious long - term consequences to B.C.'s economy and Metro Vancouver's growing traffic congestion if this referendum fails, or she just doesn't care.»

The feedback echoed those manufactured by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras who advised Germany's Der Spiegel: «If we ended up to keep a referendum tomorrow with the issue, «do you want your dignity or a continuation of this unworthy coverage,» then absolutely everyone would select dignity regardless of problems that would accompany that determination.»

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

Perhaps some Continental European observers don't yet realize that the outcome of the referendum is far from certain.

But the problem here is that Cambridge Analytica did not just employ sophisticated mass marketing, it went the whole hog and ran very specific targeted marketing campaigns for Trump while an allegedly linked Canadian company used the same technology on behalf of the Vote Leave campaign during the EU Referendum.

«Clearly immigration, trade and terrorism were key issues that swayed electoral opinion in a very significant way, just as they did in the U.K., and probably will in the European referenda and elections to come,» he continued.

When Chilean general Augusto Pinochet consented to a referendum on his presidency in 1988, he did so sheltered by an amnesty.