Sentence examples for had been petitioning from inspiring English sources
He had been petitioning Mexico for asylum for a month, meeting with senior Foreign Ministry and national security officials, said Rafael Alvarez, a human-rights advocate.
He had been petitioning for years to have this area declared a protected wetland; it's a breeding ground of the endangered white-headed duck, which has one of the longest penis-to-body ratios of all vertebrates.
The Xinhua news agency said thousands of residents living on the proposed route had been petitioning for a suspension of the $4.5 billion project, fearing the high-speed trains would produce radiation.
Mr. Karzai had been petitioning Western governments to increase the force and deploy units in cities other than Kabul, to which it is now restricted under the terms of its current mandate.
John Paul and his top advisers failed to grasp the severity of the problem until very late in his 26-year papacy, even though US bishops had been petitioning the Holy See since the late 1980s for a faster way to defrock paedophile priests.
This same notion was presented another way when Anderson Cooper invited two couples from "All-American Muslim" on his show — Nawal and Nader and Shadia and Jeff — and also, in his studio audience, a woman named Melanie who had been petitioning to get the show cancelled.
The F.D.A. had been petitioned to ban the drug in 1978 and 2006 by the Health Research Group of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization based in Washington.
"I've been petitioning the league to start in March for years now," Teixeira said, laughing.
Leaders of the Western Governors Associationn have been petitioning Congress to pass the bill this year.
Rinse has been petitioning for an FM licence since 2007, organising an international petition.
"Though we've been petitioning for years, rather than an improvement the situation has deteriorated.
