They held firm to their faith, repeatedly defying a military regime with strikes, demonstrations and a remarkable referendum defeat, as Warsaw desperately sought ways to avoid dealing with Solidarity.

In practice, however, Mr. Uribe is facing some new obstacles because the referendum defeat denied him the greater control over state spending that he had sought.

The response to the 1995 referendum defeat appears, seven years later, benign, even miraculous.

Following the referendum defeat, Edinburgh City Council applied to the Scottish Government for £198 million funding for the line, but this request was turned down.

European integration recently received a serious setback with the referendum defeat of the European Union's draft constitution in the Netherlands and France.

In the wake of the referendum defeat, Gauthier proved unable to hold the fractious caucus together and resigned as leader just one year later.

In the referendum defeat of a proposed constitutional overhaul last year, British Columbia was already playing a leadership role.

Four months ago, the party's long-cherished dream of electoral reform at Westminster was crushed in a humiliating referendum defeat.

The majority of analysis has advanced two main reasons for the referendum defeat:

After his 2005 referendum defeat and through his re-election campaign the following year, Mr. Schwarzenegger took a different tack.