Sentence examples for petitioned for it from inspiring English sources

In the last year, Loyola Law School, Chapman University School of Law and Massachusetts School of Law began offering an animal law course after students petitioned for it.

He had petitioned for it, the bend in the arcade presenting what seemed to him an irresistible geometric challenge.

The idea of granting Pakistani expats voting rights only gained traction when the political upstart Khan petitioned for it in the Supreme Court.

Originally part of a temporary exhibition, the cube became permanent after local residents petitioned for it, according to a 1967 New York Times article.

The New York City Housing Authority board voted in favor of the name change on Thursday, after tenants, local officials and housing advocates petitioned for it, according to the authority.

Sweet lime from Mexico cannot legally be imported into the United States, but the Mexican government has petitioned for it to be admitted, said Russell Duncan, an import-export specialist with the Agriculture Department.

Thousands of people petitioned Microsoft asking for it.

UPDATE, 6 11pm: Eagle-eyed observers have noticed that I have left out the GOP leaving out Delaware, the First State and land of the Fighting Blue Hens and home of petitioned-for reality-star Vice President Joe Biden.

It could require, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned for in 2013, manufacturers to sharply reduce -- perhaps by 75percentt -- the amount of sugars used in regular sodas.

In 1998, the Church petitioned for such a permit but concerned residents objected to its plans.

Pursuant to § 313 of the Act, 16 U.S.C. 825l, 16 U.S.C.A. § 825l, the State, in its proper name and also on behalf of its Directors of Fisheries and of Game, petitioned for review of the Commission's order by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.