Sentence examples for accept a petition from inspiring English sources

In a blow to farmers along the Oregon-California border, Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton refused to accept a petition today that sought reversal of a decision that has shut off irrigation water to about 200,000 acres of farmland.

The police said they arrested the women in response to a request by Mr. Macklowe's security staff, which had refused to accept a petition that the women wanted to give to the mission, and locked the doors to the building instead.

On Sept. 25, 2007, the general counsel of the court called her at home in the late afternoon to tell her that lawyers for the condemned man, Michael Richards, had asked if she would keep the court open past 5 p.m. to accept a petition.

The transfer was ordered by Spain's Culture Minister, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, who used special temporary powers to accept a petition by a judge in Aragon.

That question has raged on the Weigand campus ever since board members voted 5 to 2 to accept a petition demanding Cobian's removal.

Amid chants of "Fair votes now" and "We want to speak to Nick", Clegg briefly left the meeting to accept a petition and told the protesters, "Reforming politics is one of the reasons I went into politics".

Last year, the State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, whose members the governor appoints, accepted a petition from boating groups seeking a new study of whether manatees should remain protected under state law.

Celia W. Dugger (NYT UNITEDD NATIONS DEATH PENALTY PETITION -- Secretary General Kofi Annan accepted a petition signed by over three million people from 130 countries calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty.

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong judge on Monday gave a dwindling band of Occupy Hong Kong protesters two weeks to vacate the space below HSBC's Asian headquarters, accepting a petition by the bank.

In response, the Obama administration recently accepted a petition, filed by the United Steelworkers under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, to investigate China's state support for clean-energy exports.

A special election on whether to incorporate as a village could be held in the hamlet of Sagaponack as soon as next month, now that the Town of Southampton has accepted a petition signed by 538 eligible voters.