Sentence examples for introduced a petition from inspiring English sources

Impact: Prominent European lawmakers introduced a petition last week demanding Mr. Tajani's resignation.

To try to persuade European Union lawmakers to drop or soften the proposed rules on digital privacy, the French archivists introduced a petition, circulated to their counterparts in other countries.

The incident elicited protests, and her cause was taken up around the world, including by the UN special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, who introduced a petition that called for all children around the world to be back in school by 2015.

Republican Rep. Thaddeus Stevens introduced a petition for universal suffrage in 1866.

In December 1815 Jennings's introduced a petition from the territorial legislature to Congress that requested statehood for Indiana.

He was assisted by a number of independent printers and booksellers, who opposed the monopolistic aspects of the Act, and introduced a petition in February 1693 that the Act prevented them from conducting their business.

introduced a discharge petition that would require the House of Representatives to vote on pay equity for women.

The state's Republican Party chairman, Pat Brady, on Saturday described the whole notion as "the latest example of life in Madiganville," referring to the longtime speaker of the House, Michael J. Madigan, and introduced an online petition in which residents could urge lawmakers to thwart the tax increase.

The five-man committee consisted of three Federalists, enough to prevent the bill's return to the floor, but when Vermont Senator Stephen R. Bradley, who had traveled home because of a family illness, returned to the chamber, the Democratic-Republicans regained a majority and introduced a successful discharge petition.

House Democrats are introducing a discharge petition on immigration.

Chris Van Hollen and George Miller will announce that they are introducing a discharge petition for the Lankford bill.