Sentence examples for petitioned me from inspiring English sources

Today some women petitioned me to join us in monasticism and itinerancy.

Was it that fact alone that has caused so many in the last few days to petition me for MRFF's expeditious and aggressive intervention to prevent his U.S. Senate confirmation?

But I was under 21, so my parents could still petition for me to be granted a green card.

Ann introduced me to Amy Wilson, an actress/writer/director who had similarly petitioned her to bring the show to New York City.

"The Progressive Change Campaign Committee signed on early with the petition encouraging me to run, and they stayed with me every day right through the election," she wrote.

"Feeling preyed upon by the members of my community," one wrote one student in a petition, "makes me wonder if there is really anyone who takes my feelings seriously and thinks of me as a human being and not a piece of meat".

It is implausible to me that forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we still use this word... so I'm petitioning you to join me in deleting this word from our vocabulary as a people, as a nation and as a world".

Now, at 52 years old, Shupe said, the petition "gives me a place to exist".

The petition reminded me of my most terrifying encounter with dangerous overtaking, which actually happened to someone else.

The writer James Delingpole suggested starting a petition for me to keep them attached to my body, with the insistent headline: "We need to talk about Dr Jack Monroe's breasts".

Evan Draim, the president of Princeton's College Republicans and the co-author of a change.org counter-petition, told me that the reason Princeton named its institutions after Wilson was "obviously not because the school is trying to sanction his terrible beliefs on race" but because Princeton is "trying to remember that he made many positive contributions to this college".