Sentence examples for directly petitioned from inspiring English sources

Still, it isn't that Bulgakov was being disingenuous in his letter so much as that he didn't seem to grasp who he was addressing: for Bulgakov – as for Gogol before him, who directly petitioned the tsar over his own satirical masterpiece, The Government Inspector – power is not an impersonal phenomenon, but some sort of hypertrophied father-figure.

The coalition said this proposal marks the first time native tribes have directly petitioned a president for the designation.

In 2006, the UN made further changes to the process to allow those designated to directly petition the UN.

These include allowing national parliaments to block intrusive EU laws, an initiative to allow citizens to directly petition legislation and an expansion of the powers of the European parliament to hold the governments and commission to account.

Hague may not be able to directly petition his former colleagues – which is all that counts as lobbying under the (un-policed) rules – but he is at liberty to advise others on how to go about it, which amounts to much the same.

This dependency upon outside assistance to obtain public services ended by 1959 when residents formed the Association of Colonists of Hermosa Provincia, which was used to directly petition the government.

The charter accorded to the gentry of each province and county in Russia (excluding those of northern European Russia and Siberia) the right to meet every three years in a general assembly that could discuss and take action on the nobles' local affairs, elect a marshal of the nobility, and directly petition the autocrat on matters of importance to the gentry.

Soros, according to one of those aides, will not "shake the tin cup" and directly petition others to open their wallets.

We went directly to petition the police authority in City Hall so that Tory assembly members were forced to answer for Johnson's police cuts.

He petitioned President Andrew Johnson directly, and enlisted the support of some of his former colleagues in the Senate.

Our National Day to Demand Action will see more than 100 events across the country, giving people the opportunity to reach their elected officials directly through petition drives, town hall gatherings, and phone banking that will send huge waves of calls to district offices.