ballot initiatives

常见例句

雙語例句

• It was voters, for example, who by means of ballot initiatives insisted that the state spend more money on schools and stem-cell research.
  比如說，那些通過公民投票儅選的人堅持增加教育和肝細胞研究開支；
• 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.
  加州州長本來就不是一個強勢的位置：州政府由一群混亂的下級政府（地區、郡縣、城市）組成，相互之間還多存在競爭關系，而且大多數的預算取決於全民投票的結果（譯者注：加州的政治中全民投票是很重要的環節，經常被使用，甚至被某些政治研究機搆稱爲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.
  正是佈朗1978年任州長期間不得不執行了第13號法案（他曾經反對過）。 這是所有選民公投中最臭名昭著的一項法案。

權威例句

• 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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