Sentence examples for constant petitions from inspiring English sources

If the NSA won't respect the constraints that are put in place on its actions for a reason, and will instead shirk its responsibilities and find a way to get all the data it could ever desire, then we have even less reason to trust its constant petitions that it follows the law, and is the only thing keeping the United States safe from conflagration.

Medieval bureaucracy, with its constant duplicating, petitioning and delaying, sometimes threatens to bury the reader.

There are near-constant hearings and petitions on various products imported by various countries allegedly damaging U.S. producers in a variety of ways.

The coffin was deposited in the church and covered with a black pall, and the Office of the Dead was recited or sung, with the constant repetition of the petition: "Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him".

When he tries to close down Victorian-era hospitals and wards that have been mistreating elderly patients, he becomes "immersed in a constant round of demonstrations and petitions fighting to 'save' clapped-out institutions all over the country".

Geraldo Bartolomé, a civil engineer, launched an online petition arguing that the constant lifting and falling of the reservoir water level would erode the ice bridge.

They separated three years later; his wife's divorce petition blamed Mr. McGreevey's constant working and politicking.

His first wife, Kari J. Schutz of Vancouver, British Columbia, eschewed the political life, so much so that when they separated after three years of marriage, his wife's divorce petition blamed Mr. McGreevey's constant working and politicking.

Leapfrog petitions, highway containment, looting companies' property, and destruction of equipment emerged as constant actions (Li 2008).

Beyond the mundane — homework help, gossip, plan making, "Please sign my petition!" — instant messaging "provides precisely what it is teens need most: constant affirmation, lots of attention and the desire to distinguish themselves," Mr. Abramson says.

So much so that thousands of progressives have signed a petition calling for MSNBC to suspend the host of "Hardball" "because of his constant shilling for Hillary Clinton".