plebiscite - use in sentences
Converse of object
- hold: A plebiscite held in 1969 resulted in the area becoming an Indonesian province.
- follow: Following a plebiscite in 1956, the British area was formally incorporated into the Gold Coast.
- use: That is why Mesa used a fraudulent plebiscite to mask the continuing privatization of the energy industry behind promises of nationalization.
- organize: APDA organized a plebiscite, without state support, held in September 2002, to enable local people to voice their opinions.
- propose: Hitler could not be sure that he would get the result he wanted from this proposed plebiscite.
Adjective modifier
- national: In return for this, the bureaucracy, from time to time, presents Stalin with the sanction of a national plebiscite.
- fraudulent: Sicily is now part of the new united Italy, but this has been brought about by a fraudulent plebiscite.
Modifies a noun
- question: It was finally agreed to make Integration and Reunification, respectively, the plebiscite questions ( Chem-Langhëë and Njeuma 1980: 51-52 ).
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