Sentence examples for for petition drives from inspiring English sources

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

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — With talk of a Nobel Peace Prize in the air and election deadlines looming, supporters of Al Gore have been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for petition drives and advertising campaigns in a last-ditch effort to draft him into the Democratic presidential primaries.

Try working or organizing for petition drives and for empowering candidates and for business and government sponsored programs to: Increase the forest cover.

"We had way more response than we could handle," said Stephen Elliott, president of Grassfire.org, a conservative Internet group that called for volunteers for a petition drive and instructed people how to barrage lawmakers with telephone calls and e-mail.

Mr. Franks called for initiative and referendum, so that citizens could pass legislation by mounting petition drives for ballot measures.

Instead, most are contractors who are paid for each signature they collect by a handful of firms that specialise in organising petition drives for the lobbies.

But there are no requirements for the petition drive to be held openly or for all parents at the school to be informed.

And who do same-sex couples think they are, going to the federal courts, when they should, in Roberts's view, be politely organizing petition drives for referendums in their respective states?

The measure eased the requirements for a petition drive to change local alcohol laws.

She is the catalyst for a petition drive to change New Mexico's laws so children cannot be taken away so easily.

At the same time, Sallie Mae and other lenders have staged a series of town-hall-style meetings at their job centers around the country to help mobilize opposition to the White House plan and collect thousands of signatures for a petition drive in support of their own plan.