Sentence examples for formally petition from inspiring English sources

She plans to formally petition library officials for the transfer this week.

Lawyers who followed the court case said today that they were most struck by Mr. Gore's decision not to formally petition the Florida courts for a manual statewide recount.

Producers may formally petition a new academy industry panel to consider their series' eligibility in the alternative category.

In 2008 several environmental groups formally petitioned CEQ to issue such guidance.

There are no telephones, although the villagers have formally petitioned the Government to install telephone lines.

Earlier this week, President Thomas Klestil of Austria formally petitioned Italy to release members of a group that demonstrates through street theater.

The United States Justice Department formally petitioned Spain to extradite Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua to stand trial in the United States on charges of industrial espionage.

So last summer conservationists — along with the organization I run — formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban lead bullets and shot nationwide (there are limited bans for some hunting areas and game).

One option would be to explore some form of public "right of recall" where contracted-out services are thought to be of unacceptable quality – say where 3% of the adult electorate has formally petitioned the commissioning authority.

Almost a century later, his grandson, the artist Shaan Taseer, has emerged as a leading voice against religious extremism and formally petitioned the Islamabad high court to uphold the death sentence for his father's killer.

Some three weeks later he drafted a petition for the New York Manumission Society calling upon the Convention to give consideration to the manumission of slaves and the protection of freed blacks, but evidently on the advice of Hamilton, on leave from the Convention, he and his fellow members abstained from formally petitioning Congress.