Sentence examples for petitioned about from inspiring English sources

There will be painful cuts in the coming months: does he want to be petitioned about each one, earning him responsibility for all of them?

About 5,000 fans petitioned online for a re-shoot of the video, complaining among others, the lack of theme, the wardrobe choice, and the seemingly sexual interactions between Knowles and Jay-Z.

On Saturday local groups, organised via Facebook, petitioned shoppers outside stores in about five different locations.

Although Henry was 57 at the time, he lied about his age and doggedly petitioned to be sent to the battle front, where he promptly fell ill and had to be sent home.

Retailers, worried about the shortened holiday shopping season, petitioned then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare the holiday a week earlier - which he did.

And in an effort to deflect some of the attention from his comments about his own military "training," he's petitioned CNN to donate the generated ad sales from the forthcoming Republican debate to veterans' causes.

The move was of critical importance and explains much of what has subsequently happened, including the furious exile of the late Boris Berezovsky.Alena Ledeneva, a Russian-born sociologist at University College London, has a broader view about the relationship between petitioners and the petitioned.

After The New York Times published an article about her case, the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal alliance, petitioned Judge Nolan B. Dawkins of Alexandria Circuit Court on behalf of her children.

Chen first petitioned authorities in 1996, when he traveled to Beijing to complain about taxes that were incorrectly being levied on his family (people with disabilities, such as Chen, are supposed to be exempt from taxation and fees).

And so he had not petitioned parliament.

She petitioned congressmen, senators and presidents.