Sentence examples similar to petition for prayer from inspiring English sources
I checked my Bible today for prayers petitioning God for "a successful surgery, with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications". I found no instructions on prayer by committee or how to test the results afterward.
And the presence of the rain god Tlaloc — when considered in the light of what is known about Kachinas, the masked supernaturals associated with contemporary Hopi and Zuni tribes — helps to bolster the notion that the mask icons were most likely prayers, perhaps petitions for rain.
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.
At the beginning it was no more than a rumor, circulating through Facebook updates asking for prayers for Ms Hale and a link to a petition that had 100 signatures then (the petition now has over 105,000).
Others called for prayers.
Partly regular, partly impromptu, were the occasions for audiences with the god in which the king or other worshippers presented their petitions and prayers accompanied by appropriate offerings.
Mr. Boumediene petitioned for his release.
Gandhi starts petitions for greater rights.
§ 30.10 Petitions for exemption.
Medtronic petitioned for rehearing.
