Sentence examples for petition him to from inspiring English sources

He indulged in one or two, handing a letter to Tony Blair, on a visit to China in 1998, to petition him to help save the Tibetan antelope, or bringing in secret cameras to record illegal logging in Sichuan.

A hallway downstairs is filled with around 50 men from his Popolzai tribe, who have come, individually or in delegations, to petition him to settle disputes, secure jobs and, in a few cases, get members of the family out of prison.

In North Dakota, Democrats are petitioning him to change his mind and run again.

This is something the main opposition Democrats had petitioned him to do, arguing that the constitution empowered the monarch to take such action to resolve a crisis.

The youth says that his father has averaged calling every 48 hours for several weeks petitioning him to persuade his mother to return to him.

It began with the unfeasible success of the rainforest spoof George of the Jungle (even the Washington Post called it 'unsophisticated but enjoyable'), and now children are swarming around Brendan in airport lounges, petitioning him to autograph their Elastoplasts.

Now some of Roosevelt's most vehement critics are releasing newly found documents that they say prove that Jewish leaders petitioned him to bomb the largest and most notorious death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A local prosecutor has agreed to investigate the charges after 47 families petitioned him to launch a search for the bodies of relatives who have been missing for years.Mr Aygan's confessions are the latest in a series of sensational revelations unfolding in a case that takes its name from Ergenekon, a supposedly clandestine organisation.

In about 1096, the chronicle claims that the leading Islesmen sought assistance of Muirchertach Ua Briain, King of Munster (died 1119), and petitioned him to provide a regent from his own kin to govern the kingdom until Lagmann's younger brother, Amlaíb (died 1153), was old enough to assume control.

If God only listens to certain special people (white men) He has chosen to have the power to petition Him.

By late Tuesday afternoon, about 300,000 people had signed a petition urging him to prove it.