Sentence examples for In petitioning from inspiring English sources

In petitioning the Supreme Court to take the case, Elonis's lawyers argued that online communication makes it more difficult than ever to interpret the meaning of a statement, which makes it especially important for a jury to evaluate Elonis's intent in writing his posts rather than just consider how a hypothetical reasonable person might expect an audience to react.

In petitioning the bankruptcy court for the appointment of Mr. Freeh, the lawyers for the firm and its creditors asked for a trustee with the credibility to deal with the different investigations into MF Global's operations being pursued by the F.B.I., the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In petitioning Judge Charles S. Haight Jr. to ease the restrictions, the city argued that they unreasonably prevented the police from using surveillance and undercover officers to monitor terrorists who might never betray criminal intent until it was too late to stop an attack.

In petitioning a parsimonious government for more funds, the Australian Army had to refute the Singapore strategy, "an apparently well-argued and well-founded strategic doctrine that had been endorsed at the highest levels of imperial decision-making".

George was tense, leaning in, petitioning.

"Some have pervasive developmental disorders," the lawyers wrote in petitioning Judge David G. Trager.

When the sultan contacted the public for Friday prayer or other occasions, people would hand in petitions addressed to him.

Responses might include walkouts, sit-ins, petitions, boycotts, marches, etc.

Assign each group a protest method, such as walkouts, sit-ins, petitions, boycotts, marches, etc.

"I think you'll see a great increase in petitions.

Some of them sent in petitions demanding that Chapman be traded, and the Yankees did so.