referendum• After what he has now said about a referendum, he had betterwatch out.• On this view there is, to put it mildly, no urgency about a referendum.• The government has promised to hold a referendum and let the people choose.• If it is approved, 30-day period opens for anyone wishing to hold a referendumdrive to overturn the deal.• The Irish people voted 'no' in a referendum on divorce in 1986.• Najibullah proposed that a referendum be held in both government and mujaheddin-controlled areas to determine whether a ceasefire should be implemented.• If countyofficialsconfirm that 28,084 are those of registeredvoters, a referendum will be held around May 1.• Another referendum was to be held on June 7 over the new constitution.• They also claimed that a nationalreferendum would be impossible when so much of the country was under rebelcontrol.• Of the 28 percent of the electorate who voted in the referendum, 53 percent supported the ban.• How will you be voting in the referendum?
hold ... referendum• On the subject of the draftuniontreaty, Gorbachev introduced the idea of holding a referendum on it throughout the country.• We should not go so far as to hold a referendum, but the people must have the final say.• In 1992 western governments had allowed Bosnia to hold a referendum and become an independentstate.• The decision to hold a referendum was taken by the citycouncil in April, following a year-longpublicdebate.• It has promptedPresident De Klerk to hold a referendum to guage white support on ending apartheid.• Denmark planed to hold a referendum on the issue.• If it is approved, 30-day period opens for anyone wishing to hold a referendum drive to overturn the deal.• Whyhold a referendum, when no one could challenge the imposition of his will?• June 25: Moldavia's President Snegur announced that the republic would hold a referendum on independence in the autumn.