Sentence examples for petition on behalf from inspiring English sources

Austin argued that the laws really meant that no one could petition on behalf of the people unless the people had been consulted, and the convention served as that consultation.

Advocate M.L. Sharma filed the petition on behalf of Mukesh Singh, one of the five men accused of the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus last month.

He said Mr. Hopwood's petition, on behalf of another prisoner, was one of the best he had ever read.

The state filed a 313-page petition on behalf of Mr. Cuomo and Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Friday.

In January, Kain Colter, who had just finished a season as Northwestern's quarterback, filed a petition on behalf of his teammates to form a union.

In 2006, lawyers filed a habeas-corpus petition on behalf of Majid Kahn, a Pakistani-born resident of Maryland who had been detained without charges by the C.I.A.

William Morris, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Friedrich Engels signed petitions on behalf of the condemned, but Howells was virtually the only American writer to do so.

They have filed 13 petitions on behalf of 71 detainees before five judges, all in the Federal District Court in Washington, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents some detainees.

"People are being deported for indiscretions of their youth, and it's ripping families apart," said Carrie Grimm, the pro bono administrator at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, who helped organize a team of lawyers in New York to file petitions on behalf of former prisoners.

Bihari's Dead People's Society ("mritak sangh" in Hindi) petitions on behalf of victims of corruption.

In light of Hogan suspending the 24-hour rule, Finegar told VICE that her office filed 82 habeas corpus petitions on behalf of detained arrestees.