Sentence examples for are petitioned from inspiring English sources
noun
A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
In addition to protecting Inari shrines, they are petitioned to intervene on behalf of the locals and particularly to aid against troublesome nogitsune, those spirit foxes who do not serve Inari.
Now, many of them are petitioning the government to name him Poet Laureate.
Companies are petitioning to build more than a dozen export terminals.
In North Dakota, Democrats are petitioning him to change his mind and run again.
His wife and kids are petitioning his release on bond.
Instead, follow up a first round of petitions with two or three reminders over the period when you are petitioning.
The government has been petitioned several times on this issue.
The company has since been petitioned into bankruptcy.
And if councils can be petitioned, why not parliament too?
Recently, EPA has been petitioned to remove all refuge requirements.
A BIBD B[k,1 υ] is called resolvable if the blocks can be petitioned into (υ−1)/(k−1) families each consisting of υ/k mutually disjoint blocks.
