Sentence examples for it petitioned from inspiring English sources

Richard Rifkin, a deputy state attorney general, told The Associated Press that the state would try to prove that there were at least 10,000 residents in Kiryas Joel in 1999, the last time it petitioned for its own district, based on birth certificates, death certificates and other population indicators.

The trust began to add a number of new programs in 1982, and in February 1983, it petitioned the court to change its name to the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Yet once America had suffered terrorist attacks on its own soil the agency's posture changed, and it petitioned the White House for new authority.

It petitioned the court for permission to move forward with its eviction of Mother Earth, and Judge Laura Taylor agreed.

Earlier this year, it petitioned the agency to investigate eight ministers for abuse of office.

It petitioned the High Court to force an announcement of the results but was turned down.

In 1870, however, she claimed it herself and petitioned Congress for payment.

Danielle Fugere, a regional program director for Friends of the Earth, one group that petitioned, says, "It's difficult, because most people associate planes with vacation".

Residents petitioned to save it but, deemed unsafe, the original lighthouse was taken down in 1948.

Last summer, a fair-housing ordinance was passed unanimously by the City Council, and when 14,000 citizens petitioned to have it tested by referendum, a vote was scheduled for Apr.

Last year the city's Landmarks Preservation Committee designated the former Horn and Hardart Automat [pdf] on Broadway and 104th Street a landmark after the public petitioned to save it.