1.   Later, they called for a public referendum on several water issues, to be voted on during the November general election.

2.   A leading politics don at Oxford University has called on local parliamentary candidate, Bruce Kent, to urge his party to support a public referendum on electoral reform.

3.   Amending the state Constitution is a three-step process that involves approval by two consecutively elected Legislatures followed by a public referendum.

4.   Although Tempe voters authorized a half-cent sales tax increase for transit, a public referendum must be held before any of that money is spent on rail.

5.   And unlike Georgia and South Carolina, Mississippi will settle its dispute not in back-room negotiations but in a very public referendum.

6.   Barak has reaffirmed a campaign promise that he would not sign any final peace agreements unless Israel had a chance to vote on it in a public referendum.

7.   Barak has promised to put any peace deal before the people in a public referendum.

8.   Barak has vowed to put any peace accord directly to the Israeli people in a public referendum, should he strike a deal with Arafat at Camp David.

9.   Both states acted without a public referendum.

10.   But the civil disturbance may have saved the fair housing ordinance, which had been forced to a public referendum.