Sentence examples for petitioned on from inspiring English sources

For Google, and for many scholars and librarians who petitioned on its behalf, the indexing of those works is transformative, and adds to, rather than reduces, their value.

"Please bear in mind that we cannot approve the Bikini type bathing suit," Joseph I. Breen, the head of the Motion Picture's Production Code Administration, wrote in response to moviemakers who'd petitioned on the garment's behalf.

His most celebrated case as junior counsel was in the Argyll v Argyll divorce, when in 1963 the 11th Duke petitioned on the grounds of his wife Margaret's adultery.

Two decades after a Texas man was convicted of murdering his three young daughters by setting his own house on fire, and eight years after a campaign to prove his innocence failed to stop his execution, his family petitioned on Wednesday for a posthumous pardon.

The former generally go to workers already in the country whose employers have petitioned (on their behalf) for a change of status, and the latter "require a costly petition from an employer," Turner and co-authors note in the paper she discussed at the conference.

Austin has received support from thousands who petitioned on Facebook, and nearly 100,000 people who signed a change.org petition urging the school district to reverse their decision and allow Fisher to walk.

She spent 25 years petitioning on Cushing's behalf, Obama said.

Posting more than one petition on a single subject is also banned.

No one signed the petitions on the table.

Shorter deadlines such as the three/six week deadlines of German petitions [21] or the one month deadline of US petitions on the WeThePeople site, therefore, might produce similar outcomes without the clutter of old petitions on the sites.

He is one of the signatories to a 35,000-strong petition on the issue.