ballot initiatives

常见例句

双语例句

• It was voters, for example, who by means of ballot initiatives insisted that the state spend more money on schools and stem-cell research.
  比如说，那些通过公民投票当选的人坚持增加教育和肝细胞研究开支；
• California’s governorship is a pretty weak one: the state’s government is a mess of competing districts, counties and cities, with much of the budget mandated by ballot initiatives.
  加州州长本来就不是一个强势的位置：州政府由一群混乱的下级政府（地区、郡县、城市）组成，相互之间还多存在竞争关系，而且大多数的预算取决于全民投票的结果（译者注：加州的政治中全民投票是很重要的环节，经常被使用，甚至被某些政治研究机构称为加州政府的第四分支）。
• It was he, as governor in 1978, who had to implement (having opposed it) Proposition 13, the most infamous of all ballot initiatives.
  正是布朗1978年任州长期间不得不执行了第13号法案（他曾经反对过）。 这是所有选民公投中最臭名昭著的一项法案。

权威例句

• Past California ballot initiatives have shown the perils of governing at the election booth.
  FORBES: Frighteningly Unified Government In California
• Hey, what are the couple of local races or ballot initiatives you think will have national implications?
  NPR: It's Election Day in San Francisco
• In November, voters in two California cities defeated ballot initiatives that would have imposed taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages.
  FORBES: Is 2013 a Watershed Year for the Anti-Obesity Movement?
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