Sentence examples for called petitions from inspiring English sources

He relies on his own clerks to help cull perhaps 80 worthy cases from the thousands of appeals, called petitions for certiorari, that reach the court each year.

Liu Feiyue, the founder of Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, a Chinese human-rights organization, said his group had compiled a database of more than 200 Chinese citizens who were wrongly committed to mental hospitals in the past decade after they filed grievances — called petitions in China — against the government.

We'll need to keep pressuring them with calls, petitions, and other initiatives.

The spokeswoman added that the network "collected many questions, emails, calls, petitions, etc., separated them by topic and delivered them to Mr. Lehrer on a somewhat rolling basis".

The chapter is called "The Petition Drive".

Mr Erdogan himself has called the petition "a mistake".

Some of the princes were apoplectic and called the petition a treason.

One speaker after another appeared, some calling for petition drives, others for killing police officers.

The official petition to change your name in the state of Florida is called the Florida Petition 12-982(a).

The petition called for greater cross-cultural awareness and officer training.

The petition called on the government to begin construction by 2016.