Sentence examples for petition for intervention from inspiring English sources

On March 24 , 2005 Judge Greer denied a petition for intervention by the Department of Children & Families (DCF) and signed an order forbidding the department from "taking possession of Theresa Marie Schiavo or removing her" from the hospice and directed "each and every and singular sheriff of the state of Florida" to enforce his order.

Last month Lanzmann, a former partner of Simone de Beauvoir, signed Lévy's petition for urgent intervention in Libya.

Children can sustain years of neglect and abuse before an agency petitions for court intervention.

This proposal marks the first time that an administration has placed obstacles to citizens filing petitions for federal intervention and thus has the potential to set a very concerning precedent.

After petitions to the Crown for intervention with Parliament were ignored, the rebel leaders were declared traitors by the Crown and a year of fighting ensued.

The South African League, a new uitlander movement, prepared two petitions bearing more than 20,000 signatures each wherein they appealed to Queen Victoria for intervention against the Transvaal government, which they called inefficient, corrupt and oppressive.

Europeans are clamoring for intervention.

By the end of the fifteenth century, personal prayers and petitions for the intercession of Christ, the Virgin, and helping saints like Margaret and Anne express the hopes of direct intervention for successful conception as well as birth.

She has argued that the man was trying to rape her and that she acted in self-defence, and an online petition calling for UN intervention in the matter has been signed by more than 140,000 people.

It is a petition for peace".

His petition for readmission was rejected.