Ukraine and Georgia have maintained close ties since the Orange Revolution; both petitioned for NATO membership, but the alliance rejected plans to fast-track the two countries' applications last spring.
Ms. Elder notes in her report that both women "had petitioned to serve their sentences in Moscow, arguing that they wanted to be close to their children.
Most obviously, patients published periodicals, invited media persons to their meetings, petitioned bureaucracies, and lobbied legislators in both countries.
Both he and the left-winger Anthony Wedgwood-Benn, then Lord Stansgate, unsuccessfully petitioned Prime Minister Clement Atlee to renounce their titles.
And so he had not petitioned parliament.
She petitioned congressmen, senators and presidents.
She petitioned officials at the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles for help.
(My mother, on the other hand, petitioned to have the sex rabbit removed, without success).
In 1870, however, she claimed it herself and petitioned Congress for payment.
