Sentence examples for and petitioning from inspiring English sources

The mediati are tweeting and petitioning.

He resorted to feigning allegiance to the troika while stonewalling and petitioning it for laxity, lest Syriza win.

Petitioners, often neglected by local courts and petitioning offices, may still travel to Beijing to make a last stand.

This includes lobbying government officials and petitioning the courts by filing lawsuits, unless the court concludes that the lawsuit clearly lacks any legal basis.

But it challenged the first injunction, issued by a federal judge in California, by skipping over an appeals court and petitioning the Supreme Court directly.

The programme will be available to "all government organs and administrative units", including state media, public security departments and petitioning offices, Xinhua reported.

Two fathers of children killed in schools said in separate interviews that officials had told them public gatherings and petitioning the government were no longer permitted.

I had many parents and alumni — as well as students — protesting and petitioning us to cancel speakers or conferences on campus on Middle East issues.

If Wal-Mart truly wants to do something for its workers, it can prove it to the rest of us by either providing them with quality health care or by acknowledging that the nation's health care system is broken and petitioning the government for reform.

It's unbelievable how often women approach me with stories about enduring years of infertility - undergoing diagnostic procedures, taking medication, charting basal body temperature, checking cervical mucus, investing in digital fertility monitors, eating all-organic superfoods and petitioning the fertility gods - only to discover their inability to conceive was their partners' poor sperm count.

By the end of the war, a Freedmen's Bureau official could refer (with exasperation) to the flood of "letter-writing [and] petitioning" that residents of a single North Carolina freed people's camp had generated.