Sentence examples for a petitions from inspiring English sources

He eased his way into his first job in politics, as a state senator in Illinois, by using a "petitions guru" to challenge the signatures his rival, Alice Palmer, had obtained to qualify for the ballot, an extraordinary move for a man who had made his name trying to get poor people to vote.

"This is something that we need to look at seriously as a petitions committee," she said.

(Hoffman recently invested in Change.org, a petitions site for social change).

In contrast, we find no prolonged period of slow early growth in those mobilizations that were successful, but rather a very rapid growth that starts almost immediately after a petitions' launch.

All this should be codified by Congress as part of a Petitions Procedures Act analogous to the Administrative Procedures Act.

We created and continually improved We the People, a petitions platform, that for the first time in our nation's history, enables any individual to exercise his or her first-amendment right to petition the U.S. government on the issues that matter to him or her and be guaranteed a response if the petition gets the needed public support.

There have been some pro-Chick-fil-A petitions as well, but the numbers of signatures on them are generally smaller.

A petition.

Faculty members signed a petition.

A petition attracted 1.2m signatures.

A petition circulated, reading: "Mr. Medvedev!