Sentence examples similar to lodged petition from inspiring English sources

Tens of thousands of people travel to Beijing each year to lodge petitions with the authorities in the hope of finding redress for alleged corruption, land seizures and evictions.

The Scottish Raptor Study Group, comprising 300 experts who monitor birds of prey, lodged the petition.

Campaigners have lodged a petition with the high court in Delhi challenging the law.

The villagers had never lodged a petition before, but they quickly organised themselves.

Tewkesbury Conservative MP Laurence Robertson lodged a petition at Westminster calling for the plant's closure.

ReprintsThe UAE crackdown began last year after civil-society groups lodged a petition asking for more political openness and a fully elected parliament.

Muir lodged a petition, secured a Holyrood debate on knife crime and has led a campaign for automatic jail sentences for those caught carrying knives.

On Tuesday, Bucklew's lawyers lodged a petition with the eighth circuit court of appeals calling for a stay of execution.

At a press conference in London, his Brazilian and British lawyers said they had just returned from the United Nations in Geneva where they had lodged the petition.

On this day in 2012, administrators Duff and Phelps were appointed after HMRC lodged a petition over the non-payment of PAYE and VAT since Craig Whyte's 2011 takeover.

Maria Rigoni, who stood as a PUP candidate in the Northern Metropolitan Region, has lodged a petition with the supreme court claiming the Victorian Electoral Act was breached by the record number of pre-poll votes.