When the referendum was held in 1935, 90. 3 percent of voters supported becoming part of Germany, which was quickly approved by the League Council.

When the talks concluded, Callaghan led the Cabinet in declaring the new terms acceptable and he supported a ' Yes ' vote in the 1975 referendum.

When the territories voted in the September 1958 referendum to become autonomous within the French Community, the federation was dissolved.

When a consolidation referendum was held in 1967, voters approved the plan.

When voting on the 1995 referendum about Quebec independence ended with its defeat, Jacques Parizeau attributed the loss to " money and the ethnic vote.

When the decision for independence was announced, it included the condition of a referendum being held in the North West Frontier Province because it was ruled by the Khudai Khidmatgar-backed Congress government of Dr. Khan Sahib.

When Umberto II left Italy after a referendum abolishing the monarchy in 1946 ( see also birth of the Italian Republic ), the Savoy family lived in exile, mostly in Switzerland and Portugal.

When League Commissioner Gary Bettman visited Columbus to meet with the community's leaders about the franchise proposal, there was concern that the voters might not pass the needed referendum.

When the Citizen's Assembly process produced its recommendation that a referendum be held on the Single Transferable Vote system Carr condemned it.

When the issue was ( successfully ) submitted to a referendum a second time, Brian Cowen, the Taoiseach of Ireland, stated that he had obtained " legal guarantees " from the EU that Ireland's autonomy with regards to abortion would remain.

When Hughes was expelled from the Labor Party after the first referendum, Munro Ferguson allowed him to stay in office as a minority Prime Minister and encouraged Hughes and Cook to form a new party, the Nationalist Party, on a " win the war " platform.

When a City of Toronto election ballot included a non-binding referendum question on eliminating the Metro level of government, there was a substantial vote in favour.

When news hit that Britain's Minister of War, Lord Kitchener, was killed in action off the Orkney Islands, his name was put forward as a possible replacement, and the whole matter was put up to referendum.

When Fianna Fáil twice ( 1959 and 1968 ) put to a referendum a proposal to abolish STV in Ireland and revert to first-past-the-post, Lakeman led a successful ERS campaign to keep STV there.

When Yeltsin set the date for the elections to the new parliament and a constitutional referendum for 12 December 1993, Yavlinsky had to cobble together an electoral bloc in haste, as he had no party of his own, and had to recruit existing parties as co-founders.

When Tennessee voted on a referendum calling for secession in February 1861, more than 80 % of East Tennesseans voted against it, including majorities in every county except Sullivan and Meigs.

* September 7, 2005: Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly certified the wording of a referendum to ban same-sex marriage: " When recognizing marriages entered into after the adoption of this amendment by the people, the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall define marriage only as the union of one man and one woman.

When submitted to referendum it was adopted, on a low turnout, by 828, 483 ( 75. 4 %) votes in favour to 270, 250 ( 24. 6 %) against.

When put to a referendum it was overwhelmingly endorsed by over 94 % of the participating electorate.

When the prohibition was lifted by the Finnish government in 1932 following a referendum, they created a company called Oy Alkoholiliike Ab which was fully owned by the government.

When the party returned to power in 1997, they introduced a devolution referendum which resulted in the enactment of the Scotland Act 1998 and the creation of the Scottish Parliament.

When the legislature later called a convention, Walsh won election as a delegate-at-large as part of a slate of candidates who endorsed adding provisions for initiative and referendum to the state constitution, key Progressive-era reforms.

When the Scottish Government proposed to repeal Section 2A of the Local Government Act, which prevented local authorities from " promoting homosexuality ", Souter started the Keep the Clause campaign to oppose their plans, spending one million pounds of his own money to organise a private referendum across Scotland.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.

When we got there, Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When Costaggini had used up all the sketches thirty-six feet of empty frieze were left over.

When driving rain or mist socked in one valley, Fogg would chandelle up and over to reverse course and try another one, ranging from the Ottauquechee up to Danville in search of safe passage through the mountain passes.

When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

When Dr. W. A. Swim celebrated his 75th birthday at the Wilshire Country Club, guests came by chartered plane from all over the country.

When a man invests a block of his years at a university without gaining the coveted promotion, not only is he faced with the problem of starting over but there is also a certain depreciation in the market value of his services.

When the inning was over he cursed the Anniston catcher all the way into the dugout.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

When the anchor lands on the bottom, it will generally fall over with the arms parallel to the seabed.

When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.

When the Gothic campaign ended in Roman victory at the Battle of Naissus in September, Gallienus ' successor Claudius II Gothicus turned north to deal with the Alemanni, who were swarming over all Italy north of the Po River.

When the campaigns in Africa were over, Afonso V found new grounds for battle in the Iberian Peninsula.

" When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make?

When it came to penal sanctions, no officeholder could impose a fine over fifty drachmas.

When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.

When large numbers of delayed signals are mixed over several seconds, the resulting sound has the effect of being presented in a large room, and it is more commonly called reverberation or reverb for short.