Example sentences for: plebiscite

How can you use “plebiscite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Star also criticized Clinton for his handling of the nuclear weapons crisis in the Indian subcontinent: He should replace "sanctions, disapprobation, and isolation" with the promotion of India to the United Nations Security Council and the Group of Eight in exchange for India holding a plebiscite in Kashmir.

  • The U.N. had been expected to play a role in Timor's transition to independence, but Annan says pillaging by Indonesian troops after August's plebiscite has left the Timor government in disarray.

  • Kashmir was divided between both India and Pakistan, pending a plebiscite — which has never been held.

  • Via del Plebiscito, the street that connects Piazza Venezia with Largo Argentina, now almost totally surrendered to buses and taxis, was named for the `plebiscite' held in 1870, shortly after the events of the 20th of September, when the people of Rome voted to join the rest of Italy, ending the temporal power of the Church.

  • The cease-fire agreement called for a plebiscite to decide the governance.


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