Sentence examples for been petitioned from inspiring English sources
noun
A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
Recently, EPA has been petitioned to remove all refuge requirements.
The government has been petitioned several times on this issue.
The company has since been petitioned into bankruptcy.
Arm-wrestling is not an Olympic event, though the United States Olympic Committee has been petitioned.
It has also been petitioned by investor groups and environmentalists to add climate change to the list of those challenges.
The F.D.A. had been petitioned to ban the drug in 1978 and 2006 by the Health Research Group of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization based in Washington.
Rinse has been petitioning for an FM licence since 2007, organising an international petition.
I've been petitioning you for months now.
Additional courses may be petitioned for approval.
And if councils can be petitioned, why not parliament too?
Any deviation must be petitioned prior to the act.
