Sentence examples for petitioned from inspiring English sources

We have talked, we have held meetings with ministers, we have attended roadshows, we have petitioned, lobbied, written, and we have provided evidence and analysis.

He petitioned the home secretary, denouncing graveyards as "laboratories of malaria … so many centres of infection, constantly giving off noxious effluvia".

Stalin Dayanand from Vanashakti, an environmental group that petitioned at the High Court, thinks that nothing will change so long as affordable housing is not constructed for migrants, who crowd into low-lying areas near deltas and on sinking coasts, and so long as the developer-politician nexus continues.

Hester Piozzi, one of the most influential literary women of the era, petitioned for a royal licence for her husband's nephew to take her birth name of Salusbury.

– clowis Because a century ago, women petitioned, marched, were arrested, went on hunger strikes, boycotted censuses and even died because they believed in the fundamental importance of the right to vote.

A group of self-styled "experts" has petitioned the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, to scrap a planned meeting with Mr Sharif in New York next month.That would be a mistake.

The Supreme Court ruled that instead of petitioning a federal court in New York state to hear his case, he should have petitioned in South Carolina, where he is being held.

In July the 2,000 or so residents of Gran Roque, the archipelago's only inhabited island, petitioned the legislature to get their government up to speed.They may get far more than they bargained for.

It was not done to be politically correct, but to be true to the facts.You also assert that interest groups petitioned to make sure that the soldiers' expressions "suggested the perplexity the war engendered".

Shortly after the end of the second world war, Star City ended its fling with the demon drink and banned sales of liquor, turning the place dry.Times changed only last year, when Jamie Lindsey, a restaurateur, petitioned the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control (AABC) for a permit to serve liquor in his private club and restaurant five hours a night, four nights a week.

Hundreds of thousands of people have protested and petitioned in support of cherished local amenities, in a spontaneous outburst of civic activism.